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

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Through these relationships, the business has worked hand in hand to offer some of its clients’ functionalities through its own product suite for use by other users. The firm provides users with pre- and post-trade analytics, as well as unbiased OTC content and proprietary data, price discovery insights, and risk management services.

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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 9, 2024

She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. When people have ownership in their function and they can see their contribution to the business, that really motivates them to make sure that they are constantly improving,” she explains. “In

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Not that the seemingly never-ending list of aforementioned market occurrences had noticeably hindered the prime business. Those are the relatively commoditised parts of the business. 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.

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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. In Europe, for our style of business we don’t use portfolio trading that much. A novel concept to greener traders.

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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. In his first role at LGIM, Raymond was responsible for overseeing its credit trading business out of the US.

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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 There are no prescribed measures for any particular asset class at any given time. You had the gilt crisis.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

The question is – to what extent did that easy access to data in the US generate more retail business? 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.

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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. On the other hand, weekend work is far less common, so its easier to shut off outside of business hours.

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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. Greater efficiency also unlocks new business models. Data is the lifeblood of any automated trading business.

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