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. His new role is not yet public but will be communicated in due course.

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Accenture Capital Markets

JUNE 18, 2024

Generative AI (gen AI) is predicted to impact over two-thirds of all functions across the capital markets industry, suggesting that the technology has the potential to significantly transform all its segments—including asset management. The majority of asset manager have already started on this journey.

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The TRADE

JUNE 27, 2024

State Street Global Advisors and Galaxy Asset Management have unveiled a new collaboration aimed at bringing investors digital asset-based strategies, offering key exposure to companies involved in the digital asset space. trillion digital asset landscape through manager-directed strategies. “We

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The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management, joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader. He will also be involved in the ongoing management of the Titan Hybrid Capital, Core Credit, and Short Duration IG income funds.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

James Hilton was appointed multi-asset managing director in RBC’s low touch team, joining from Credit Suisse, where he had been serving as head of sales for EMEA for the bank’s advanced execution sales (AES) team. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2006, Hilton spent six years at UBS Investment Bank as a director.

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The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

Bloomberg AIM and Bloomberg Vault have been adopted by India-based NJ Asset Management to help enable its enterprise-wide digital strategy across the entire investment workflow. According to the firms, Bloomberg AIM addresses NJ Asset Management’s specific needs for tools to support rule-based investment decision-making.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Ryan O’Connor has 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

MAY 1, 2024

Some 83% of asset managers plan to change product strategy in the next two years, a new survey from Northern Trust has found, emphasising the need to cater to diverse investor needs. Technology appears to be at the heart of that change, with 77% planning to leverage new tech within the same timeframe.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This follows asset managers having reduced OTC exposures in the wake of the ‘uncleared margin rules’ and other post-crisis reforms. The OTC market has been key for the buy-side for many years, allowing them bespoke, often complex, products for their portfolio needs.

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The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2023

Linedata’s 2023 global asset management survey has found the main focus globally is on future cost saving and automation. Overall, the area where AI has been most deployed across the industry globally is in investment research at 32%, revealed the survey, closely followed by portfolio analytics and risk management at 30%.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As asset managers continue to look for ways to fully capitalise on data, a new SIX report has found that almost half view data velocity as the key challenge in enabling analytics to drive growth. These individuals work across financial institutions, asset managers, wealth managers, investment banks, and asset servicers.

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The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2024

Credit Suisse has signed an agreement to sell its majority stake in Credit Suisse Investment Partners (CSIP), owned by Credit Suisse Asset Management. CSIP segment manages funds and associated mandates – including convertible bond funds – with a total of CHF 1 billion in assets under management.

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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. In addition, the tools allow for ESG data integration across the investment process, which Triodos asserted aligns with its stated commitment to sustainable investing.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The industry is rethinking how to manage the generation, storage, transformation, usage and retirement of both structured and unstructured data. A strong push to refocus on investment management. A keen desire for scalability and simplification. Robotic Process Automation.

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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 25, 2024

State Street’s Charles River is set to manage the front-office operations for Perpetual Group’s Australian asset management business. Craig Squires, group chief operating officer at Perpetual, explained that the decision came as the business sought to address current challenges and complexities across investment management.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2024

German asset manager BayernInvest has adopted an integrated suite of Bloomberg solutions to support its front-to-back workflows. Expanding our engagement with Bloomberg as our technology partner has enabled us to streamline our investment management and operations workflows,” said Alexander Mertz, chief executive of BayernInvest. “It

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The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management has joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader, according to an announcement on social media. Livingstone has previously served as head of trading – FX and ETFs at Tavistock Investments.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

I spent the first 20 years of my career at the global bulge bracket banks, first in investment banking and then on the institutional equity desks, in a cross-asset and special situations role. Mike was building an investment team and process focused on idea generation and creative structuring. What does your role involve?

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The TRADE

MAY 14, 2024

Erste Asset Management, part of Erste Group Bank, has become the latest European client to join Clearwater Analytics’ buy-side community. The development will see Clearwater aggregate multi-asset client investment data, help increase asset flows and improve client service.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2024

UK asset manager Gravis Capital Management has become the latest to integrate Bloomberg AIM in a bid to enhance its front-office workflows. Bloomberg is also set to provide Gravis with services related to inbound asset servicer integrations and data reconciliation.

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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.

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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. I shall be taking up a more active role in a corporate development and investment advisory position, at an extraordinarily exciting time for the business.

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The TRADE

JULY 15, 2024

Impax Asset Management Group has completed its acquisition of Absalon Corporate Credit’s fixed income assets. Once both deals have been completed, Impax is set to have total pro-forma fixed income assets under management and advice of around £3.1 The existing fixed income team is based in the US.

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Growth Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A tax-based venture capital scheme, VCTs invest in small and early phase businesses that are unlisted or on AIM. They were introduced by the government in 1995 (a year after EIS was introduced) to facilitate investment in local private business, incentivising investors with generous tax reliefs. Contact fiona@edge.vc or ashley@edge.vc

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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. Elsewhere in his career, Tan served at Maybank Investment Banking Group in an equity sales trading role.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

“By optimising ETF workflows with consistent data, key analytics and more efficient basketing capabilities, asset managers are better equipped to drive investment decision making with access to near real-time data modernise their operating models as the ETF marketplace continues to grow.” Issuers using the Alpha platform can make use of portfolio (..)

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We expect an acceleration in firms moving away from heavily investing in aggregating, owning, storing and engineering these data sets, time and time again when high-quality, curated and maintained historical data and analytics are available for all. Every asset manager is looking to rationalise its technology footprint and spend.

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The TRADE

JULY 2, 2024

Prior to the move, Lane worked as vice president – institutional commodity sales EMEA, ETFs, q uantitative investment strategies QIS). Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s global head of ETF product, Ryan O’Connor, departed for Global X ETFs.

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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

JULY 8, 2024

Senior equity trader at Janus Henderson, Stuart Mair, left the asset manager after 14 years. He originally joined the asset manager in 2010 as an RFP associate on the fixed income team. Prior to the move, Lane worked as vice president – institutional commodity sales EMEA, ETFs, quantitative investment strategies QIS).

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Multi-manager hedge funds promise investors solid risk-adjusted returns with low volatility; no matter what the broader market does, you’ll make money if you invest in them. 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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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 10, 2024

If you want to read angry comments and long threads with plenty of insults, you can’t go wrong with the wealth management vs. investment banking debate. These individuals are usually “high net worth” (HNW), meaning an average of $5 – $10 in assets, but it could be as low as $1 million.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In institutional investing, many players seem to view RPA as a way to also deal with stringent regulatory requirements, lower projected future returns and growing cost pressures. The traditional RPA approach used by large financial services players usually doesn’t easily work in institutional investing. The challenge with this?

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