The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

MAY 14, 2023

A consortium comprised of Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation completed the acquisition of 60% of the equity in National Grid’s gas transmission and meter business in January, in a deal which valued the business at £7.5bn. Continue reading.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Triodos Investment Management has selected Bloomberg’s AIM and PORT Enterprise solutions in a bid to support its front-office workflows. In addition, the business has confirmed the potential for the future addition of a dedicated trading desk workflow.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2024

Investment manager Franklin Templeton has become the latest buy-sider to integrate BlackRock’s flagship order management platform, Aladdin. Aladdin supports the entire investment management process across asset classes. The transition will begin in Q2 2025 and will be made up of phases over several years.

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The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

Bloomberg AIM and Bloomberg Vault have been adopted by India-based NJ Asset Management to help enable its enterprise-wide digital strategy across the entire investment workflow. According to the firms, Bloomberg AIM addresses NJ Asset Management’s specific needs for tools to support rule-based investment decision-making.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 22, 2024

UK-based asset manager Artemis has selected Northern Trust to provide outsourced trading services for its equities and derivatives activity, effective January 2025. The post Artemis Investment Management outsources equities and derivatives trading to Northern Trust appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JULY 7, 2023

Generali has entered a definitive agreement to acquire US-based Conning from Cathay Life in a deal that will see it become one of the largest asset management firms in Europe. Earlier this year, UK asset manager Liontrust also entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Swiss asset management company, GAM Holding for £96 million.

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The TRADE

MARCH 25, 2024

State Street’s Charles River is set to manage the front-office operations for Perpetual Group’s Australian asset management business. We are pleased to extend Charles River into Perpetual’s Australian asset management front office.” billion AUM as of 31 December 2023.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Head of Europe for UK-based asset manager Federated Hermes, James Rutherford, has stepped down from his role to pursue a technology venture, The TRADE can reveal. I shall be taking up a more active role in a corporate development and investment advisory position, at an extraordinarily exciting time for the business.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Guido Baltussen has been appointed international head of quantitative strategies at Northern Trust Asset Management, a newly created role in which he will oversee EMEA and APAC. His experience also includes a stint as quantitative investment strategist at ING Investment Management.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Redburn Atlantic has expanded its UK and European execution business with two new heads of sales trading. Atkins joined Redburn Atlantic in 2004 as a sales trader having previously served for eight years at Morgan Grenfell and two years at Marathon Asset Management. Tony Atkins was appointed UK head of sales trading.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s investment-grade credit trader, Christopher Lemmo, has left the firm to join Norges Bank Investment Management after almost 13 years at the fixed income focused asset manager. He has been appointed senior trader at Norges Bank Investment Management, based in New York.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2024

UK asset manager Gravis Capital Management has become the latest to integrate Bloomberg AIM in a bid to enhance its front-office workflows. Bloomberg is also set to provide Gravis with services related to inbound asset servicer integrations and data reconciliation.

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Global Banking & Finance

DECEMBER 23, 2024

BNP Paribas has formally signed the previously announced 5.1bn ($5.3bn) share purchase agreement for Axa Investment Managers. Axa and BNP Paribas Cardif entered into exclusive negotiations in August to offload Axa’s asset management division.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT). He originally joined the asset manager as an investment operations analyst in 2020. Previously in his career, he spent a year as an operation analyst at Liquidnet.

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The TRADE

JUNE 16, 2023

M&G’s global asset management arm has appointed Manabu Fujita as head of M&A Investments Japan. Fujita joins from Schroders Investment Management Japan, where he spent the last 15 years, most recently serving as head of sales. Fujita will report to Loretta Ng, M&G’s head of Asia Pacific. “We

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There’s already a huge section of the asset management community and the asset servicing community, including Northern Trust, that are established in Singapore as large parts of their global operations.” We consider Singapore one of our most significant investment centres, both in Asia and internationally.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

Taitz joined buy-side OEMS provider Adroit as its head of business operations after seven and a half years with Invesco helming its fixed income trading business. During his time with the asset manager, Taitz was responsible for Invesco’s fixed income trading desks in the US, UK and Hong Kong.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is the application of robotics technology to manipulate existing application software which completes a business process. In institutional investing, many players seem to view RPA as a way to also deal with stringent regulatory requirements, lower projected future returns and growing cost pressures.

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The TRADE

MAY 30, 2023

TS Imagine has expanded its team in the Asia Pacific with two new appointments from investment management fintech Enfusion. Stephanie Cheung has been appointed sales director, while An Hoong will work within the account management team, responsible for technical account management and client support.

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The TRADE

JULY 18, 2023

The post GAM Investments head of institutional solutions to depart for Aviva Investors appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

BlackRock promoted Dean Catton to take the helm for its European credit business after spending the last two years as its head of European leveraged finance trading for its alternatives business. Previously, Williams served as an investment account manager at Northern Trust.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The year ahead will be busy for institutional investors and pension funds as they navigate political turbulence and speculations around when the economic cycle will shift. The industry is rethinking how to manage the generation, storage, transformation, usage and retirement of both structured and unstructured data.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

GAM heads, Mark Hawtin and Jeremy Roberts, are set to join Liontrust Asset Management in the coming months as head of global growth equities, and head of global distribution (ex UK), respectively. Prior to GAM, Roberts was co-head of EMEA retail sales and head of UK retail business at BlackRock.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 19, 2023

GAM Holding has confirmed its first steps in the turnaround plan for the business, aiming to return the company to profitability following a turbulent period. GAM has already made several new appointments in recent weeks in a bid to grow the business and increase profits, including changes to the group management board.

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The TRADE

JUNE 29, 2023

Specialist multi-asset manager Candriam and its parent company New York Life Investments have expanded their partnership to grow their remit in the US offshore market. Following the expansion of the partnership, the pair will offer solutions and services to non-US resident investors who invest through US intermediaries.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 9, 2023

BNY Mellon Pershing has appointed Umar Zaman as head of strategy for its EMEA business, based in London. Zaman brings more than 20 years’ experience to the role, having worked in various senior positions at a number of global organisations, including AXA Investment Managers, EY, and PwC.

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The TRADE

JULY 18, 2023

M&G’s global asset management arm has secured a Securities Investment Consulting Enterprise (SICE) business license in Taiwan, allowing the firm to establish a new office in Taipei as part of its Asia expansion strategy.

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OfficeHours

MAY 24, 2023

Here are the general steps you can follow to pursue a career in investment banking: Obtain a Bachelor’s Degree & Work to Obtain a High GPA Most investment banks prefer candidates with a strong educational background and analytical skills.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. He most recently served as managing director in its institutional rates sales business, overseeing key strategic relationships and distributing global rates products.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

James Barnett, multi-asset trader at Manulife Investment Management, addressed the fact that there are currently no plans to move in that direction. Barnett agreed that there were drawbacks to a multiple EMS approach in terms of efficiency, however he stressed the fact that liquidity is of the upmost importance. “So

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The TRADE

JULY 18, 2023

Bank of America has reported a strong second quarter and first half of the year overall, despite its global wealth and investment management total revenue decreasing 4% to $5.2 The bank also highlighted that lower than average transactional volumes had contributed to lower asset management and brokerage fees.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

I spent a lot of time in my sell-side days working as a conduit between capital markets and the origination desk within investment banking as a bridge into the public side, covering hedge funds and multi strategy investment managers for anything equity-linked and credit with a cross-asset mindset. It’s been busy.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Interoperability and improvements through partnerships were championed by speakers including buy-sider Jon Tricker, head trader, global credit at Vanguard who confirmed the investment manager was leveraging the “maturing API community” to expand its systems. You can keep your ecosystem and add a new layer and see how that works.”

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In her current role for Goldman Sachs, she is responsible for ensuring the operational efficiency of the business, managing relationships with exchanges and ensuring the business and its clients are well-positioned for developments within the European market structure.

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The TRADE

JUNE 5, 2023

He joined the AI fintech in September last year after spending the previous six years with Liquidnet as head of EMEA business development among other roles. TS Imagine expanded its team in the Asia Pacific region with two new appointments from investment management fintech Enfusion. Both will operate out of Hong Kong.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Following this, in June, the business launched BondGPT, an application powered by OpenAI GPT-4 which answers bond-related questions and helps users identify corporate bonds on the LTX platform. Invesco Asset Management and Charles River Development (CRD) were the first to facilitate the new functionality following an initial testing period.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’ve always worked in the asset management industry, starting my first job at 18 with Scottish Amicable Investment Management in Glasgow. From the banking team at Scot Asset Management, I moved firms in 1999 to take up a role in trade settlements. What has your journey to the trading desk been like?

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