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A new chapter for RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s London-based fixed income trading desk

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UK-based boutique fixed income trading desk BlueBay Asset Management is beginning a new chapter in its life. The move has opened up swathes of synergy opportunities for the pure fixed income asset manager, with its traders now working directly alongside RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s equities desk.

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Equity Research vs. Investment Banking: Careers, Compensation, Exits, and AI/Automation Risk

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In equity research, the goal is to get clients to pay for the teams research consistently , but revenue does not depend on deals or other specific events. But you would not build models for M&A deals, leveraged buyouts, or debt/equity issuances in research or at least, they would be far simpler than the IB versions.

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The Full Guide to Pre-MBA Internships: Are They Worth It?

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where you attend a few days of events and workshops and get fast-tracked for first-round interviews if you do well enough. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Events – These are like the “programs” above but provide underrepresented minorities (URM) with the chance to get fast-tracked for initial interviews.

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Trading at the frontier

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She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. Having a cohesive team globally has proved an increasingly essential tool for institutions in light of the ongoing globalisation of finance and the turbulence caused by market events in the last few years.

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SSGA’s Sharon Ruffles on fixed income trading: It’s a different job every day

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Events from the last three years have translated otherwise dormant interest rates into a hive of activity for fixed income traders as global economies work to combat the threat of inflation and recession. Something that has become only too apparent throughout the course of 2023. A novel concept to greener traders.

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Keeping an aircraft carrier nimble in times of turbulence

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There are few in this industry – and outside of it – that haven’t heard about the events in the late 90s and early 2000s that saw the dotcom bubble burst and send markets into disarray. Chicago is a very small community and so I knew most of the portfolio managers and management at LGIM America before I came over.

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

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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. Finding traders is the easier part.

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