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People Moves Monday: State Street Global Advisors, RBC Capital Markets, Fidelity Investments and more…

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Boston-based McKenna joined GMO in 2004 as a pricing analyst, and most recently worked in a multi-asset trading role for 15 years. Initially during her tenure at BNY Mellon, she served as an assistant portfolio manager, fixed income. Before joining MFS, she spent seven and a half years at BNY Mellon (now BNY).

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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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“In the end, the efficiency that we hoped to reach with having one desk was not realised and therefore we said we want to focus on one specific asset class with dedicated equity traders, fixed income traders and FX traders,” says head of equity trading and operational portfolio management at Robeco, Robbert Wijgerse. “We

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

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Depending on your personality, skill set, and long-term goals, these single-manager funds or “hybrid funds” could be perfect or far from ideal: What Are Single-Manager Hedge Funds? That’s much too big for a single team, so they have multiple teams with different Portfolio Managers and Analysts separated by sector and strategy.

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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

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