This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
The scheme has recognised numerous promising talents over the years, many of whom have gone on to expanded roles such as head of trading at some of the world’s largest assetmanagers and hedge funds. Find previous years’ recognised shortlists here: 2022 – 2021 – 2020 – 2019 – 2018 – 2017 – 2016 – 2015.
Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the assetmanagement firm, The TRADE can reveal. Union is bolstering its digital assets division, The TRADE understands.
Royal London AssetManagement’s (RLAM) trading team is no stranger to change. The London-based assetmanager 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.
Running for its ninth year, the Rising Stars initiative, in partnership with Instinet, has recognised a number of up-and-coming talents over the years, many of whom have gone on to hold impressive roles and head up some of the largest and most successful desks across the world’s leading assetmanagers and hedge funds.
David Kirk is set to join Millennium, following almost three and a half years at Marble Bar AssetManagement where he most recently served as a trader, The TRADE understands. Kirk joins the capital management firm with experience working as a trader on both the buy- and sell-side.
Earlier in his career, Hinxman also held senior positions at CME Group before departing in 2015, most recently working as head of sales and commercial development for CME Europe. RBC BlueBay AssetManagementequity trader, Michael Tamou, left the assetmanager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT).
Assetmanager Ninety One promoted from within for its new deputy global head of trading and head of trading for South Africa. Jonathan Tse has been appointed managing director, EMEA head of electronic trading quant analytics, platform and product at UBS, as he moves over from Credit Suisse. He will report to Blatch.
I spent the first 20 years of my career at the global bulge bracket banks, first in investment banking and then on the institutional equity desks, in a cross-asset and special situations role. I was there through 2015, then Bank of America, before I joined Conversant Capital in early 2021. It’s been busy.
Assetmanager Ninety One has promoted from within for its new deputy global head of trading and head of trading for South Africa, The TRADE can reveal. Former head of trading for South Africa at Ninety One, Doug Blatch, has been selected to support global head of trading at Ninety One, Cathy Gibson, as deputy.
Eleanor Beasley, chief operating officer for EMEA equity execution services, Goldman Sachs Chief operating officer of EMEA equity execution services, Eleanor Beasley, joined Goldman Sachs to manage its new-look market structure team in 2019. He is also responsible for Liquidnet’s equity product strategy.
The plan was to create an integrated North American dealer to significantly advance its growth strategy in the region, specifically through the addition of Cowen’s US equities sales trading, execution, and research offering. Songca’s appointment comes after nine years with Ninety One, originally joining the assetmanager in 2015.
Founded in 2015, Valsoft has been among the most active strategic buyers of software, making 28 deals in 2023 alone. Notable transactions include the January 2024 acquisition of $54 million EV Damstra Technology, a provider of integrated workplace management software and related mobile applications for businesses worldwide.
For some assetmanagers and hedge funds, the seemingly impossible notion of all traders not physically sitting together on a centralised desk and communicating face-to-face was all but wiped away overnight as the hybrid working setup was forcibly tested and passed with flying colours.
Liontrusts chief commercial officer and former head of trading, Matt McLoughlin, has left the UK-based assetmanager after 10 years, The TRADE can reveal. McLoughlin originally joined Liontrust in 2015 as a senior trader before working his way up through the ranks to become head of trading in 2016.
Malrait was most recently managing director and global head of market structure and innovation for financial markets at ING Bank, overseeing the financial market innovation strategies within the firm.Before joining ING in 2015, he spent eight years at Socit Gnrale, most recently working as global head of FIC eCommerce.
The deal will further bolster FIS capital markets technology offering, having acquired SunGard in a major deal back in 2015. As part of the role, Raghavan will serve a broad mandate across both Citadel AssetManagement and Citadel Securities. In this role he built analytical tools, trading strategies and optimisation models.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 38,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content