Global Banking & Finance

DECEMBER 17, 2024

By Surajit Saha Investors and asset managers seek strategies that balance risk and growth during market volatility. Traditional portfolio models, like the 60/40 equity bond asset allocation, have been decades-long staples but are increasingly challenged by prolonged low interest rates, inflation, and unpredictable market shifts.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 30, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, The TRADE can reveal. Union is bolstering its digital assets division, The TRADE understands.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, as revealed by The TRADE. She currently serves as head of RepoClear and collateral management at LCH SA.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 23, 2023

Asset managers have tapped fixed income, equities and exchange traded funds (ETFs) for their greatest market data spend over the next 12 months, according to a new Coalition Greenwich and SIX report published on 22 August. This has increased the amount of data needed for participants to execute.

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The TRADE

APRIL 5, 2024

Kepler Cheuvreux subsidiary Ellipsis Asset Management has moved to expand its capabilities in the convertible bond segment with the acquisition of Rothschild & Co’s business. As part of the deal two Rothschild portfolio managers – Cristina Jarrin and Mikael Dauvert – will move to Ellipsis AM.

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The TRADE

JUNE 27, 2023

The LBX suite is now connected to ICE ETF Hub’s FIX application programming interface (API), providing third-party platforms and ETF market participants with improved access to the ICE ETF Hub platform, alongside the ability to systematically manage their creation and redemption orders.

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The TRADE

MAY 2, 2024

Appital Insights is now fully integrated with FactSet’s Portware execution management system (EMS), enabling the latter’s asset management clients to access Appital Insights liquidity easily within their EMS. They know that Appital Insights does not impact ‘on-screen’ prices and they retain full control of the order.”

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The TRADE

JULY 5, 2024

Brokerage business MIT SIM has appointed Neil Terence O’Connor as equity trader. Milan-based O’Connor joins following almost 15 years at ACCIONA Group’s Spanish asset manager, BESTINVER. He most recently served as e quity sales trader, leveraging key knowledge of the Italian, Swiss, US and UK markets.

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Global Banking & Finance

JULY 29, 2024

Frankfurt-based Chom Capital GmbH is an owner-operated asset management boutique, licenced to conduct financial services in the form of investment brokerage, investment advice, contract broking and financial portfolio management.

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The TRADE

MARCH 22, 2024

Most recently, Tan held a global portfolio trading position, which included trading global equities with strategy implementation via algorithms, crossing networks and global portfolio trading desks. Prior to that, Tan held a global markets, APAC cash equities position based in Singapore.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While everyone seems to know about equity research and trading stocks, fixed income research gets far less attention. Equity Research vs. Fixed Income Research Common Myths What Do You Do as a Fixed Income Research Analyst or Associate? Also, it can be quantitative or fundamental – or both! –

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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

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

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

APRIL 10, 2024

According to Nasdaq, it will make it possible for investors to gain exposure in the Swedish small cap market and simplify investment strategies through consolidating a diversified portfolio of small cap stocks into a single instrument. In addition, the screening criteria allows investors to make decisions which are aligned with ESG outcomes.

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The TRADE

JULY 8, 2024

Senior equity trader at Janus Henderson, Stuart Mair, left the asset manager after 14 years. According to an update on his social media, Mair joined hedge fund and systematic trading platform Schonfeld as an equity trader dealing with long and short strategies.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Thomas Gallagher The offering is based on Bloomberg Indices’ portfolio of benchmarks and combines MIH’s expertise in operating the relevant exchanges with Bloomberg’s advanced technological capabilities to “bring much-needed competition to the equity index derivatives industry,” said Thomas Gallagher, chair and chief executive of MIH.

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The TRADE

MAY 15, 2024

BNY Mellon has today announced the integration of Global Markets Trading (GMT), which will combine the firm’s capabilities in foreign exchange, fixed income, equities and capital markets to provide full-service client provisions.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Almost two thirds (63%) of buy-side equity market participants believe outsourced desks would result in improved execution quality and trade performance when trading across regions, according to new research from Coalition Greenwich.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Rob Hocking The new futures aim to provide market participants with an additional tool to calculate implied volatility of the US equity market as measured by the S&P 500 Index, and to manage volatility risks and express directional views.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 19, 2023

If you’re interested in long-only hedge funds, you should ask a different set of questions: Do these long-only funds offer any advantages over strategies like long/short equity ? And if you are interested in this strategy, should you even target hedge funds, or would a long-only asset management firm be better?

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Previously he also served across ANIMA Asset Management and Mediobanca. Walker originally joined LSEG in 2018 and has since served as head of equity and fixed income primary markets. Bank of America made three new appoints to its EMEA equities distribution business, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Specifically, the Netherlands-based impact asset manager will utilise Bloomberg’s offerings to enhance processes for its investment funds and discretionary clients’ business. Together, the solutions manage integrated workflows for more than 200 clients – which includes over 100 of the world’s top asset managers (by AUM).

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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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Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

Portfolio Management Merchant banking companies provide portfolio management services to high -net-worth individuals and corporate investors. These services include a selection of securities, portfolio monitoring and review, advice on the rationalization of portfolios, and tax planning.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Samuel Henderson, EMEA equities head trader, Invesco   I predict we will see increased flows into international equities and active management coming back into vogue amidst a rise in earnings and macro volatility.

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The TRADE

JUNE 2, 2023

The asset manager will now operate with two specialised trading groups, one dedicated to equities, consisting of a team of three traders and headed up by Fabien Orève, and one dedicated to fixed income, consisting of four traders and headed up by Amaury Van Ruymbeke.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The multi-manager hedge fund model is simple: Raise $10-20 billion, borrow at the fund level to take this to $50-$100 billion, and then allocate this capital to dozens of internal teams. Beta-Neutral Portfolios: For example, if the S&P 500 goes up or down by 5%, your team’s portfolio should move by ~0%.

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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

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. Equities was already a globalised product and in 2021, LGIM opted to globalise its fixed income product offering.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

RBC BlueBay Asset Management The market is already pricing in rate cuts in Q1 although I, along with many others, don’t believe they will begin before the end of H1. This uncertainty will lead to heightened equity volatility in 2024. Investors will need to think far more about the risk profiles of their portfolios.

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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. Every asset manager is looking to rationalise its technology footprint and spend.

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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. He was most recently managing director and head of equity derivatives trading, Asia ex-Japan at Nomura.

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