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Keeping an aircraft carrier nimble in times of turbulence

The TRADE

Finding fixed income After spending three months as a trading assistant intern at PPM America, Raymond landed his first permanent buy-side position, joining UBS Asset Management as an operations assistant in 2003. Chicago is a very small community and so I knew most of the portfolio managers and management at LGIM America before I came over.

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Our List of 10 Private Equity Firms Investing in Software to Watch

Software Equity Group

Main Capital Partners Founded in 2003, Main Capital Partners has been among the most active private equity firms in the software space, making 10 SaaS deals in 2023 alone. Thoma Bravo maintains an active portfolio of 76 firms, with $134B in AUM and a $435M median valuation. The firm currently employs 31 professionals.

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The 20 greatest trading innovations

The TRADE

These systems touch upon all elements of the trading lifecycle throughout the front-to-middle-to-back-office including execution, order, risk and portfolio management. In 2003, the index was updated as part of a partnership with Goldman Sachs. Portfolio trading Next up is portfolio trading.

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DWS Group’s Werner Eppacher: ‘Liquidity is like a shy deer’

The TRADE

Werner Eppacher has spent the entirety of his two-decade financial career with German asset manager DWS Group, catching his first glimpse of a trading floor as an intern for Deutsche Bank in 2003. “A

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20 angel investor networks you should know about

Growth Business

Winners of the UKBAA’s ‘Most Active Investor in the Regions’ award in 2019, Equity Gap members currently invest in over 30 companies, leveraging over £70m in total investment into its growing portfolio. It is highly selective about businesses it backs, having raised £3m since 2016.

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From Cliff to Escalator: Why the 5-year Higher Ed Enrollment Outlook is Less Dire Than Some May Suggest

Tyton Partners

Less often discussed than the Cliff is the “Demographic Rise”: a ~2% YoY increase in births from 2003–07, which will increase — and already has increased — the potential supply of first-year students from AY ’21 through AY ’25. Whether the escalator is heading up or down, getting handrails in place to guide the path forward is imperative.