The TRADE

JULY 26, 2024

Robert Whelan has joined Citadel as equity trader following almost eight years at Pictet Asset Management. Whelan joined Pictet AM as an equity trader back in 2016. Prior to that, he worked at Morgan Stanley, initially joining as an electronic trading associate before going on to a role as equity sales trader.

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The TRADE

MAY 16, 2024

A DWS Group senior equity trader has departed for pastures new after over 16 years at the asset manager, The TRADE can reveal. Alex Cotar has left the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank to join Bankhaus Metzler as an equity sales trader, according to an update on social media.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Ryan O’Connor left Goldman Sachs Asset Management and is set to join ETF provider Global X ETFs as chief executive on 8 April. He most recently served as global head of ETF product, having initially joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management back in 2017 to build out the US fund strategist model portfolio business.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Nasdaq European Markets selected Matteo Balladori, former head of European business development at Citadel Securities, to join the venue as a senior sales director, The TRADE revealed. He joined Nasdaq European Markets in its European equities sales team based in London after nearly six years at Citadel Securities.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Janus Henderson Investors has appointed Francesca Alesi as a junior equity trader, based in London. Alesi joins the asset manager from GSA Capital, where she spent the last two years. 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

MARCH 11, 2024

BNY Mellon made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equity sales and trading businesses. Bianca Gould was appointed head of fixed income and equities EMEA, based in London. Elsewhere, Kathleen Kinsella joined BNY Mellon as head of US fixed income sales, based in New York.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Oaktree Capital Management has agreed to acquire Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM) – the wealth management arm of Close Brothers – for an equity value of up to £200 million, set to be completed in early 2025 pending customary regulatory approvals.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 30, 2024

Electronic trading platforms captured almost a third (32%) of overall Canadian equity trading volume in 2023, with this share expected to rise in the next three years, a new report by Coalition Greenwich has found. The post Natural block liquidity is shifting Canadian equities towards e-trading, finds report appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The three incoming professionals are London-based and hold long track records of success and leadership across global equities trading. Bradley was most recently a partner at Mariana Capital and prior to that was head of CSC equity options at GFI Group. He has also previously worked for Goldman Sachs.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Redburn Atlantic has moved to expand its UK and European execution business with two new heads of sales trading, The TRADE can reveal. Tony Atkins Tony Atkins has been appointed UK head of sales trading. Alongside his appointment, Redburn Atlantic sales trader Luc Demoulin has been appointed EU head of sales trading.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 6, 2024

Bird joins the firm from JB Drax Honore, where he served as a relative value (RV) sales and execution trader. His appointment follows that of Robert Whelan, who joined Citadel as an equity trader last month. Whelan previously served as an equity trader at Pictet Asset Management.

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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

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. Sales and trading revenues increased by 3% to $4.3

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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. Tony Atkins was appointed UK head 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.

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The TRADE

JULY 15, 2024

Most recently, he served as equity and derivatives trader, vice president at SSGA, focused on the EMEA region, having joined the desk in December 2016. Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management appointed Regine Wiedmann as head of distribution for the DACH region. Following his departure he is set to join Barclays Capital.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Previously, he served as global head of institutional sales at TP ICAP, and before that worked as head of sales EMEA and Asia Pacific at BGC Partners for two years. RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT).

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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 29, 2024

Two former London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and SIX Swiss Exchange sales specialists were selected to join US equites alternative trading system (ATS) OneChronos to support its push into Europe. Elsewhere, Sherlock most recently served in a European equity sales role since 2021.

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The TRADE

APRIL 15, 2024

Across the board banks have reported increasingly positive equities performances, a notable development following turbulent recent times. Jane Fraser While equities performance either grew or remained flat across the sell-side, the banks posted less impressive growth in fixed income, however. Equity markets revenue was $2.7

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The TRADE

MAY 20, 2024

David Wilkins, head of FICC execution services EMEA and global EFX sales at Goldman Sachs, and James McGuigan, director FX eTrading at Citi became the latest members to join Tradefeedr’s client advisory group aimed at improving market transparency and data dialogue across the market.

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The TRADE

MARCH 5, 2024

When it comes to selecting an algo provider, ease of system use, reliability and quality of technical support was the top consideration for asset managers across both sides of the Channel in 2023 – 71% in the UK and 73% in Continental Europe – according to a Coalition Greenwich report.

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The TRADE

APRIL 8, 2024

He joined Cowen as managing director for fixed income outsourcing in February 2022, transitioning to commodities specialist Marex as part of the sale of Cowen’s outsourced trading and prime brokerage business at the end of last year. He has also held senior roles at Martin International Securities and Tullet & Tokyo Securities.

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The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

He joins as head of execution sales and microstructure. 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. Jefferies appointed Peter Johansson as an equity sales trader.

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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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The TRADE

AUGUST 28, 2023

Will Irwin was appointed director of FX institutional sales at Lloyds Bank North America, following his departure from Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) where he had been serving in a similar role. Pictet Asset Management appointed Jade Beckmann as an equity trader.

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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

JULY 17, 2023

Yet with equities, these markets are constrained by market hours which may be specific to a region and/or exchanges themselves. With Middle East and North Africa (MENA) becoming a larger part of indices and portfolio managers’ thinking, decisions will have to be taken around how best to trade these markets.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Head of EMEA equity trading at Janus Henderson and markets stalwart, Richard Worrell, is set to leave the institution for a sales role at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). He will join the exchange group as head of secondary markets sales and business development in January 2024, sources have confirmed.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

BlackRock selected a former FlexTrade order management system pre-sales specialist for a solutions engineering role on its flagship Aladdin platform. Previously he also served across ANIMA Asset Management and Mediobanca.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Luke Holmes, head of equity sales trading, US clients at Kepler Cheuvreux left the firm after five years, as revealed by The TRADE. Holmes joined Kepler in 2019 having previously served in equity sales trading roles at Sanford C. Alesi joined the asset manager from GSA Capital, where she spent the last two years.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

He joined after most recently spending two and a half years at BlackRock’s flagship Aladdin platform, serving as a managing director and leading its business development efforts across EMEA. Greg Finke joined the boutique asset manager after just over a year at Rothschild & Co as a senior investment dealer covering equities.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Elsewhere in her career, Sueng – one of The TRADE’s Rising Stars in 2019 – worked in fixed income sales at both Tullet Prebon and Newedge as well as previously serving in fixed income performance analyst roles at Amundi and Societe Generale Asset Management. Bernstein, also working as an equity trader.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Head of EMEA equity trading at Janus Henderson and markets stalwart, Richard Worrell, is set to leave the institution for a sales role at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), The TRADE can reveal. He will join the exchange group as head of secondary markets sales and business development in January 2024, sources have confirmed.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Greg Finke joins 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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