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Chasing innovation on Robeco’s global equity trading desk: ‘In order to stay good, we need to become better’

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We want our brokers to be able to accept receiving pre-allocations for these orders. If we’re trading for multiple accounts, we need to pass on the accounts numbers to them via FIX. Originally joining Robeco in 2004, she is now in her second decade at the asset manager. “The In the past you would pick up the phone.

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Trading at the frontier

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Given the liquidity landscape can often be more sparse or difficult to navigate, the use of local brokers alongside the bulge brackets is something Willis thinks is essential to minimise market footprint. But sometimes you want to go to the road less trodden, and that’s when you make use of local brokers,” he says. “My

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Royal London Asset Management: ‘At the end of the day, they’re just really good traders’

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Having all that internal and external data in one place allows us to better quantify the value add of the trading role,” says Cornell. “You can take into account not just the price they executed, but also how large the order was and the general liquidity at the time. Hughes is one of the trading desk’s longest standing members of staff.