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. I completed an internship in finance and fast forward to 10 years later, I am now a trader. What has your journey to the trading desk been like?

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In today’s environment, managers are placing greater value on diversification of risk, of securities lending access, of financing and balance sheet,” Pershing told Global Custodian. This is a timing problem which causes issues on T+1 if there are any trade discrepancies between the asset manager and the executing broker.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The immediate focus for the business is set to be investing in client service and portfolio management, specifically hiring in senior sales and distribution team members focused on Europe and the UK, as well as investment managers for both the luxury brands and credit opportunities strategies.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Almost all conversations about buy-side roles eventually turn to multi-manager hedge funds , also known as “pod shops.” There are only a few dozen large funds in this category worldwide, but they’ve greatly impacted the markets and finance careers. These funds are usually multi-strategy as well.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

RBC appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Elsewhere, Kirk is set to oversee and enhance Tourmaline’s services in support of asset managers globally as part of his new role.

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Razorpay

DECEMBER 15, 2024

This enables them to focus on their businesses, personal lives, or other priorities, knowing their finances are in expert hands. This might include tax-advantaged investment vehicles, strategic asset allocation, and estate planning to reduce inheritance taxes.

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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. Having a cohesive team globally has proved an increasingly essential tool for institutions in light of the ongoing globalisation of finance and the turbulence caused by market events in the last few years.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Werner Eppacher has spent the entirety of his two-decade financial career with German asset manager DWS Group, catching his first glimpse of a trading floor as an intern for Deutsche Bank in 2003. “A Can you imagine an asset manager increasing the management fee for an ETF?

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I was part of the generation where computers were a big part of growing up so I thought I would join that industry, but then the tech bubble burst in college and I couldn’t find an internship in that field,” he explains. “[After finding an internship in finance] I thought ‘these are really big dollar amounts that people are moving around.

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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.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 24, 2023

“Event-driven hedge funds” is one of the more confusing labels in finance. All the large multi-manager funds , such as Millennium, also use event-driven strategies to some extent. Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM), Pentwater, Silver Point, Anchorage, and King Street.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In addition to the billion dollar-plus launches, CIBC Mellon also points out to us the noteworthy increase in scheduled fund launches with assets under management of $500 million or greater – up almost two-fold on what was observed in 2023. They are now trading in all these other asset classes.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 5, 2023

If you’ve read this site before, you know this set of goals is impossible for most finance careers: you take a lot of risk, work long/stressful hours, or both. Some SWFs operate like long-only asset managers (i.e., and supporting your Portfolio Manager ’s ideas and requests. Take little-to-no risk.

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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. What AI can’t do in finance, any more than a human can do, is predict the future.”

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 24, 2024

These are likely to result from a collaborative approach between technologists and their end users including investment professionals, legal, compliance and finance teams, among others. Jamil Jiva, global head of asset management, Linedata As we leave 2024 behind, artificial intelligence is set to transform industry practices.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Michael Lam joined TT International as a senior trader, following three and a half years at Jupiter Asset Management as a fixed income trader. He has previous experience across multi-asset trading and his past roles include stints as a multi asset trader at Manulife Investment Management and BNP Paribas Asset Management.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 5, 2025

Then there are mid-sized funds with between $1 and $10 billion in AUM, such as Braidwell, BVF Partners, Casdin Capital, Cormorant Asset Management, Deep Track Capital, EcoR1, PFM Health Sciences, Polaris Partners, Rock Springs, and Vivo Capital. Other large funds include Perceptive Advisors, RA Capital, and RTW.

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