The TRADE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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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The TRADE

JULY 29, 2024

David Kirk is set to join Millennium, following almost three and a half years at Marble Bar Asset Management where he most recently served as a trader, The TRADE understands. Kirk joins the capital management firm with experience working as a trader on both the buy- and sell-side.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry stalwart Dan Hinxman joined Bloomberg as head of European credit electronic trading following almost six years as managing director at TP ICAP. RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT).

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2023

Fixed income trading venue and data provider MarketAxess has expanded its integration with the Investortool platform for its municipal bond activity From now, MarketAxess’ offerings will be displayed on the Investortools Dealer Network (IDN) as it seeks to expand its electronic municipal trading.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Bookbuilding platform Appital has launched a new initiative to unlock liquidity unavailable through traditional electronic trading venues. Traders and portfolio managers will also be able to access exposure to liquidity events in relevant equities meeting their minimum ADC or pricing thresholds.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

There will be a focus on reliable and proven data sets that both optimise returns while reducing risk, and that are applicable to portfolios across many asset types and multiple geographies. You will also continue to see a push to modernise the loan market, whether through digitised loan data or electronic trading.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Greg Finke joined the boutique asset manager after just over a year at Rothschild & Co as a senior investment dealer covering equities. Prior to joining Rothschild in January 2023, Finke spent nearly five years at Marathon Asset Management as a global equity trader covering equities and FX.

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The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

Griffin originally joined Kepler in 2016 as its head of portfolio and electronic sales trading, later assuming his most recent role as head of market structure and liquidity solutions in 2022. Before that, he served as vice president and relationship manager for JP Morgan’s priority asset manager clients.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

He also spent several years at Goldman Sachs in a risk management and product control role. Bloomberg appointed Colin Williams in an electronic trading and analytics solutions role. Prior to that, he spent six and a half years at State Street Global Markets in a portfolio solutions role.

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The TRADE

JUNE 22, 2023

Executing size in today’s credit markets is often challenging,” said Steve Chylinski, head of FI trading at Eagle Asset Management. The post Broadridge’s LTX launches new AI-powered RFQ+ protocol to better facilitate larger trades appeared first on The TRADE.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

State Street’s asset management business State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) named Dublin-based Ann Prendergast head of EMEA. She has been with State Street since 2000, beginning as a relationship manager. Arqaam confirmed that Shalabi will have a specific focus on enhancing the firm’s electronic trading capabilities as well.

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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. When I joined State Street in 2004, we were electronically trading then. “In asks Ruffles. Absolutely yes.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Industry Person of the Year 2023 shortlist: Seema Arora, managing director, head of execution sales, Instinet Europe Champion of The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution award scheme, Instinet Europe’s Seema Arora needs little introduction with an extensive financial career spanning more than 25 years.

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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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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents. And, like most asset managers across the street, its global equity trading desk plays host to a variety of characters, each bringing their own individual string to the wider team’s bow.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Technology is at the forefront of this movement and the electronification/automation of many parts of the execution function allow the human element of trading to be more focused on larger, more complex trades that carry greater risk and as the role of trading develops, into other areas of the overall asset management business.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For the right person, though, fixed income research can be even better than equity research, whether you’re at a bank, an asset management firm, a hedge fund, or a credit rating agency: Table of Contents: What is Fixed Income Research? Also, it can be quantitative or fundamental – or both! – closer to the work at a quant fund ).

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What are the key drivers behind asset managers’ move towards multi-asset trading and what benefit can this provide? Stephane Marie-Francoise Marie-Francoise: Everything starts with the desire from the investment team to develop a multi-asset class strategy offering.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Axes are no longer the preserve of the trading desk at asset managers. The use of this data by the portfolio management function means they can better represent their investment process by taking liquidity into account. Dealers still need to get better at distributing their data and managing where it goes to.

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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. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets. This context is crucial for our day-to-day operations. You’ve got competing market makers that you are up against.

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The TRADE

JULY 30, 2024

Assets under management (AUM) and trading volumes for this asset class have experienced a significant rise over the last few years. What’s particularly notable is the willingness of big asset managers to launch their latest active strategies in an ETF wrapper.

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Software Equity Group

APRIL 24, 2024

A few examples include: In 2022, Siemens acquired Brightly Software (formerly Dude Solutions), which provides enterprise asset management and facility operations management SaaS. The acquisition complements Fluke’s wide-ranging capabilities in supporting its customers’ predictive maintenance and connected reliability needs.

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The TRADE

MAY 23, 2024

It is rare, for example, that you’ll find an asset manager worrying about the good of the market or how an order might influence the primary lit market share, over whether or not they have achieved the optimal outcome for their portfolio manager and end investor. They’re built for slightly different purposes.”

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This has forced prime brokers to focus more on risk management and diversification of their client portfolios with increased regulatory pressures.” The market volatility has certainly been a defining feature of the year, for both clients and providers, and gave rise to opportunities for certain strategies, while costing others dearly.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

On the other hand, foreign exchange – the largest financial market in the world – benefits from the fact that trading is not limited to one central location but is instead conducted between participants by phone and electronic communication networks (ECNs) in a wide range of markets globally.

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Software Equity Group

AUGUST 20, 2024

Top Strategic Buyers Investing in SaaS Valsoft Corporation Valsoft is a holding company for a diverse portfolio of software and related technology services and currently employs 2,000 employees. In February 2024, Visma acquired InvoiceXpress, a developer of electronic invoicing software and related APIs for small businesses worldwide.

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