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

The TRADE

For Sharon Ruffles, head of fixed income trading for EMEA and Asia Pacific at State Street Global Advisors, the beauty of fixed income lies in how much one day can vary from the next. She began her trading career on an all-female trading desk, and says it was watching the world’s news play out in the markets that drew her to trading.

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Trading at the frontier

The TRADE

The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Ninety One’s trading team consists of 17 globally with six – soon to be seven – based in London.

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Kepler Cheuvreux’s head of market structure and liquidity solutions departs

The TRADE

Kepler Cheuvreux’s head of market structure and liquidity solutions has left the broker dealer, The TRADE can reveal. He joined the broker dealer in 2016 as its head of portfolio and electronic sales trading, later assuming his most recent role as head of market structure and liquidity solutions in 2022.

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

The TRADE

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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Kepler’s Byron Griffin to join ODDO BHF

The TRADE

Former head of market structure and liquidity solutions at broker dealer Kepler Cheuvreux Byron Griffin is set to join Franco-German financial services firm ODDO BHF, The TRADE can reveal. He is currently on gardening leave set to join ODDO in the coming months, The TRADE understands.

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

The TRADE

Jamie McKenna was appointed vice president, senior global equity trader at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following almost two decades at GMO trading. Boston-based McKenna joined GMO in 2004 as a pricing analyst, and most recently worked in a multi-asset trading role for 15 years.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Portfolio Structure: Unlike MM portfolios, SM portfolios do not have to be market–neutral or based on pair trades; many SM funds also tend to run much more concentrated portfolios (e.g., 10 – 15 positions rather than 100+). Some of these funds have 100+ employees; Viking has 275+ with 45+ investment professionals.

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