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Stuart Lawrence has been appointed head of European equities trading at UBS AssetManagement four and a half years after he joined the firm in June 2019. He was most recently head of UK equity trading at UBS AssetManagement, having previously served as a high touch equity sales trader at Kepler Cheuvreux.
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In 2019, we closed the largest number of transactions ever for our firm, reflecting the increasingly robust M&A market for insurance brokers driven mainly by private equity sponsored brokerages. Sica | Fletcher is pleased to announce that we’ve topped the S&P Global rankings for the third consecutive year.
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has promoted one of its own to the role of head of US equity and foreign exchange trading, The TRADE can reveal. Gregory Corrigan has been selected to take up the reins for US equity and FX trading after eight years at LGIM.
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