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Kepler’s Ellipsis AM set to acquire Rothschild AM convertible bond business

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As part of the deal two Rothschild portfolio managers – Cristina Jarrin and Mikael Dauvert – will move to Ellipsis AM. Ellipsis AM’s convertible team currently comprises of four portfolio managers, with each one performing the role of trader alongside acting as portfolio manager.

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Retail boost is driving volumes off-exchange, Liquidnet finds

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Retail traders typically follow equity performance closely – a trend dating back to 2021. Despite retail flows not necessarily adding much in terms of available liquidity, Liquidnet noted that book depth, lower correlations and reduced volatility had improved for traders and portfolio managers. billion worth of purchasing.

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Adroit Trading Technologies receives $15 million capital injection to scale distribution and development

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Adroit’s offering is a single point of access, cross-asset, all-in-one tool for traders and portfolio managers active in cash and derivatives markets (often across tangled global account structures). Founded by Jaglan in 2014 focused on OTC solutions, Adroit has since expanded into EMS and achieved profitability in 2016.

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The prime brokerage pie is growing, which means bigger slices for everyone

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Dominic Rieb-Smith, managing director, international head, prime services sales, JP Morgan, refers to the past year as “a standout”. Data from Convergence tracking the top 25 prime brokers showed their market share grew from 83.3% in April 2023, to 92% in 2024.

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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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Trading at the frontier

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At the helm of the team is global head of trading Cathy Gibson who oversees trading across the asset manager’s offices in London, the US, Asia Pacific and South Africa. She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years.

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DWS Group’s Werner Eppacher: ‘Liquidity is like a shy deer’

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He joined DWS Group a year later as a portfolio manager and worked his way up through the ranks, going on to lead teams of PMs focused on a range of instruments that stretched across asset classes. But Eppacher began to notice a distance between himself and the day-to-day action of what was happening in the markets.

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