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

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Royal London Asset Management’s (RLAM) trading team is no stranger to change. The London-based asset manager has undergone not one but three makeovers in recent years as it continues to evolve with the demands of the street. More recently though, RLAM’s trading team has undergone another revamp.

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Delaware Supreme Court Overrules Gentile Carve-out, Holding An Improper Transfer Of Economic Value And Voting Power To A Controlling Stockholder Through An Equity Overpayment Is A Derivative Claim

Shearman & Sterling

Brookfield Asset Management, Inc. 2004), and expressly overruled Gentile and its carve-out from Tooley. Valihura, the Delaware Supreme Court sitting en banc reversed the denial of defendants' motion to dismiss breach of fiduciary duty claims brought by former stockholders of TerraForm Power, Inc. the "Company").

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Delaware Supreme Court Overrules Gentile Carve-out, Holding An Improper Transfer Of Economic Value And Voting Power To A Controlling Stockholder Through An Equity Overpayment Is A Derivative Claim

Shearman & Sterling

Brookfield Asset Management, Inc. 2004), and expressly overruled Gentile and its carve-out from Tooley. Valihura, the Delaware Supreme Court sitting en banc reversed the denial of defendants' motion to dismiss breach of fiduciary duty claims brought by former stockholders of TerraForm Power, Inc. the "Company").

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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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Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents. And, like most asset managers across the street, its global equity trading desk plays host to a variety of characters, each bringing their own individual string to the wider team’s bow.

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Single-Manager Hedge Funds: The Best Way to Get a Recurring Guest Spot on CNBC?

Mergers and Inquisitions

As a notable example, here’s Pershing Square’s performance vs. the S&P 500 from 2004 through 2017: Yes, Pershing Square outperformed the S&P on an annualized basis over this entire period, but it also underperformed for multi-year periods! Read the filings, build a model, and make a long/short pitch”).

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SSGA’s Sharon Ruffles on fixed income trading: It’s a different job every day

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Beginning her career on the buy-side at boutique asset manager Credit Suisse First Boston as an investment portfolio analyst in London in 1986, Ruffles has seen the markets through several highs and lows. When I joined State Street in 2004, we were electronically trading then. “In A novel concept to greener traders.

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Trading at the frontier

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She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. He moved to Investec Asset Management – now Ninety One – in 2004 in an operations role before moving onto the dealing desk covering money markets and some FX in 2007 just in time for the global financial crisis. “It

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