The TRADE

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Umair Khan Marwat joined Millennium as a trader, following almost two and a half years at Balyasny Asset Management. Hong Kong-based Marwat previously worked at Credit Suisse, focused on AES, algorithmic, and direct market access (DMA) trading, before joining Balyasny Asset Management in 2021 as a trader.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 2, 2024

RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, has left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), The TRADE can reveal. He originally joined the asset manager as an investment operations analyst in 2020.

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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. Specifically, the Netherlands-based impact asset manager will utilise Bloomberg’s offerings to enhance processes for its investment funds and discretionary clients’ business.

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The TRADE

MAY 8, 2024

Singapore-based investment manager New Silk Road has outsourced its trading to Northern Trust as it seeks to fortify its offering as T+1 looms. The post Singaporean investment manager New Silk Road outsources trading to Northern Trust appeared first on The TRADE.

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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

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. He departs following a 35-year long career in investment management, spending 19 years at Fidelity Investments as a European portfolio manager until 2006.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Martin Hendry, deputy head of trading, Liontrust Asset Management As we peer into the crystal ball for 2024 trading, a notable shift is anticipated with the adoption of T+1 settlement for US equity transactions. This transition is poised to reshape the pace and efficiency of equity trading, promoting quicker settlement cycles.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Previously recognised individuals have gone on to head up some of the largest and most successful desks across leading asset managers and hedge funds. The post The TRADE announces the Rising Stars of Trading and Execution 2024 appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Running for its ninth year, the Rising Stars initiative, in partnership with Instinet, has recognised a number of up-and-coming talents over the years, many of whom have gone on to hold impressive roles and head up some of the largest and most successful desks across the world’s leading asset managers and hedge funds.

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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. He began his career as a junior portfolio manager at RSA covering US equities.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

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. Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) promoted one of its own to the role of head of US equity and foreign exchange trading.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Heraty will take on the role of head of US equity solutions and structured product sales, whilst Gleave has been appointed as head of European equity solutions. Heraty was previously at Credit Suisse where he spent four years as head of North American equity derivative sales.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Alexandra Roby, head of equity sales UK and Ireland at SIX Swiss Exchange, said: “Our long-standing support of the Leaders in Trading awards emphasises how much we value both the awards and the exceptional efforts of all the buy-side nominees. Voting will close on Friday 18 October.

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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. The deal, once completed, was set to create a global asset manager with £53 billion in assets under management and administration.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 20, 2024

Northern Trust has been selected to provide outsourced trading to global asset manager Nedgroup Investments via its Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS). Amy Thorne Specifically, Northern Trust will support Nedgroup with its new in-house multi-boutique fixed income platform.

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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 billion due to lower average equity and fixed income market levels. However, the company’s equities revenue was not a fruitful, falling by 2% to $1.6

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 7, 2023

MAIA Technology and Neovest have partnered to create an enhanced joint offering of new execution management capabilities for Fulcrum Asset Management. The move has come as Fulcrum’s trading desk looked to leverage more derivatives strategies and its execution needs evolved. Fortunately for us, Neovest was able to do that.”

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

During his time with the asset manager, Taitz was responsible for Invesco’s fixed income trading desks in the US, UK and Hong Kong. Prior to joining Invesco in 2016, Taitz spent two and a half years at RBC Capital Markets in a fixed income role and 10 and a half years at UBS Investment Bank as an executive vice president.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Eleanor Beasley, chief operating officer for EMEA equity execution services, Goldman Sachs Chief operating officer of EMEA equity execution services, Eleanor Beasley, joined Goldman Sachs to manage its new-look market structure team in 2019. He is also responsible for Liquidnet’s equity product strategy.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

Williams joined from BNY Mellon, where he spent the last six years, most recently serving as an equity trader. Previously, Williams served as an investment account manager at Northern Trust. M&G’s global asset management arm appointed Manabu Fujita as head of M&A Investments Japan.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

If you have for example bonds and FX, it’s very easy to trade that in a single EMS, and the same with equity and FX also.” James Barnett, multi-asset trader at Manulife Investment Management, addressed the fact that there are currently no plans to move in that direction.

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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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MAY 24, 2023

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Bradley will be responsible for building out Tourmaline’s equity derivatives franchise across Europe, while Williams will be responsible for covering clients on global cash equities execution, building on his two decades of experience in the area. Prior to that, Paris-based Benizri worked for UBS, in a structured products sales role.

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The TRADE

JUNE 5, 2023

Jenkins has been head of trading at Polar Capital for three and a half years, joining in 2019 after serving with Highbridge Capital Management for five years as its head of European trading. Previously in her career she spent several years at Cantor Fitzgerald and Virtu Financial in equity sales trading roles.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

Up against other individuals from Invesco, Liontrust Asset Management, Baillie Gifford and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), Nutting took home the award after an industry-wide vote. In 2016, Nutting moved to Principia Investment Management Limited where she was an execution trader and fund manager assistant.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Chicago-based head of US trading at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) Ryan Raymond has seen enough economic turmoil during his career to know what to do when markets turn volatile. 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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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

David Berney and Michael Broadbent run Ergo Consultancy which delivers what it refers to as provider “beauty parades” for buy-side organisations looking to outsource their trading, whereby it presents all the services in the industry to that asset manager, hedge fund or asset owner. The list goes on.

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The Deal

JULY 18, 2023

For instance, Ridgemont Equity Partners ‘ January investment in food distributor Worldwide Produce was supported by six direct lenders including Ares Capital Corp. , NXT Capital LLC , Kayne Anderson Private Credit, Manulife Investment Management , PNC Erieview Capital and Yukon Partners Management LLC.

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Razorpay

DECEMBER 15, 2024

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. Kumarasinghe then moved into an equities seat.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

The responses included views from 45 buy-side equities market participants across the US and Europe, of which 28% expect their firms to ‘at least consider’ adding an outsourced provider over the next two years. Examples just from just the last six months include UK-based investment management firm Waverton – which has £9.1

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In July, LTX integrated with BlackRock’s end-to-end investment management and operations platform Aladdin as part of the next phase of the pair’s multi-year partnership. 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

JUNE 1, 2023

The near-constant stream of mergers and acquisitions across both the sell- and buy-side appears to show no signs of abating as two asset management deals have been announced in the past 24 hours. In the same week, Redburn merged with Atlantic Equities – creating a London-headquartered transatlantic broker. stake in the company.

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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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