Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 8, 2023

You must also consolidate information from various sources and present it effectively to build relationships and execute deals. The Top Commodity Hedge Funds, Trading Firms, and Trading Desks All the large, multi-manager hedge funds use global macro strategies, and some have dedicated commodity groups.

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Peak Frameworks

MAY 8, 2024

Formula: Annual Depreciation Expense = (Cost of Asset - Salvage Value) / Useful Life Declining Balance Method Methodology: A more accelerated depreciation method, where depreciation expense decreases over time. Salvage Value Role: Acts as a threshold that depreciation cannot reduce the book value of the asset below.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For some asset managers 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.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“There’s been an increase in the willingness and ability to leave latent liquidity in the marketplace to try to get things done in a slightly different way,” explains head of trading at Jupiter Asset Management, Mike Poole. “I Quasi order book, small size, executable, click to trade, the algos will get smarter quickly.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Recent trends highlight an increasing demand from asset managers, fast money, and quant funds, expediting the transition toward electronification in NDF markets,” says Patil. “As With infrastructure building out globally to accommodate new interest in NDFs, greater appetite for more automation must surely follow.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

FlexTrade Systems Over the past 12 months, multi-asset execution and order management systems provider, FlexTrade has made gone from strength to strength in this space, continually developing its offering to better meet the needs of the market.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. In nothing short of a baptism of fire, he took his first steps into trading in January 2007 in the build-up to the global financial crisis. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 24, 2024

Energy Consulting to Asset Management: Consulting is closer to finance than engineering, but a pre-MBA internship would still be useful because AM firms recruit relatively few MBAs and normally want people with finance experience. Instead, pick a single company and give yourself 1-2 hours to assess it and build a simple model.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 10, 2024

.” Interviews are broader than IB interviews and require knowledge of asset allocation, economics, and and financial markets, but far less specific technical knowledge. However, the “sales shift” starts much earlier in wealth management , as it’s pretty much a sales job from Day 1 (with some analytical work mixed in).

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Finding fixed income After spending three months as a trading assistant intern at PPM America, Raymond landed his first permanent buy-side position, joining UBS Asset Management as an operations assistant in 2003. Helming the US business of one of the largest asset managers in the world through such a course is no mean feat.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. A novel concept to greener traders. It gives you a sense of what the systems enable us to scale.”

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 25, 2023

BMLL Technologies BMLL provides its clients – banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, global exchange groups, academic institutions and regulators immediate and flexible access to Level 3, harmonised, T+1 historical order book data and advanced pre- and post-trade analytics at scale.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Werner Eppacher has spent the entirety of his two-decade financial career with German asset manager DWS Group, catching his first glimpse of a trading floor as an intern for Deutsche Bank in 2003. “A Can you imagine an asset manager increasing the management fee for an ETF? Finding traders is the easier part.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

So you can see how this growth and momentum just starts to really build over time.” They need a financing platform to support all of that. We’re one of the only providers that can do all of that for them.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2023

Donker added: “We [Euronext] are afraid that the CT will be used as a validation for executing retail on a systematic internaliser or on a dark pool and this will come to the detriment of the multi-lateral order book. It’s widely acknowledged that the ever-growing rise of retail has a positive correlation on market liquidity.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 22, 2025

At the junior levels , entry-level professionals in both fields spend a lot of time in Excel working on models, valuations, and documents such as equity research reports and investment banking pitch books. public markets roles ( hedge funds , asset management , etc.), bulge bracket research team to startup PE firm).

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

SimCorp has entered into a strategic partnership with LSEGs SaaS platform, Yield Book, to integrate the offering into its Axioma Risk analytics suite. These capabilities aim to help institutional investors to address risk factors that are specific to this asset class and help them make better investment and risk decisions.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For dealers and asset managers, technology becomes a core business requirement, and market share tends to accrue to firms with the most efficient and scalable infrastructure. The trader probably has a Bloomberg terminal with streaming order book data and a news feed. The automation train only goes in one direction.

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