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MARCH 26, 2024

Leveraged loan trading revenue topped $900 million in 2023, up 16% from 2021 and 29% from 2022, a new report from Coalition Greenwich has found. Execution quality was the key priority when choosing a dealer counterparty, with 48% of buy-side leveraged loan trading volume allocated to dealers based on the execution quality.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

MetLife Investment Management (MIM) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire three investment teams and assets managed by Mesirow, an independent financial services firm. Nearly $6 billion of assets managed by the acquired team will transfer to MIM, under the terms of the transaction.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Virtu Financial and Deutsche Börse Group’s FX trading platform, 360T, have formed a new partnership, set to provide clients with an integrated FX trading analytics and TCA offering. As Virtu extends its offering to the 360T client base, users will be able to leverage the trading analytics in a fully integrated manner. “At

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JUNE 6, 2023

Aviva Investors, Aviva’s global asset management business, has appointed Monica Fan-Bradley as head of institutional sales (excluding Asia Pacific) within its global client solutions function. She also serves as a member of eVestment’s asset manager board and the advisory council of The Diversity Project UK.

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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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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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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Data sharing network Glimpse Markets has added KBC Asset Management to its growing list of buy-side participants. “By joining Glimpse, we’re anticipating future market developments towards greater transparency and the democratisation of data through broader industry collaboration.

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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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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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OCTOBER 5, 2023

DWS has announced an asset management strategic alliance with BOCHK Asset Management (BOCHKAM), in a bid to enhance the Hong Kong offering for investors in the region. BOCHKAM’s knowledge of the market as one of the fastest growing asset managers in the region will be leveraged to best serve local clients.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Global head of equity trading at Janus Henderson, Dan Royal, accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from The TRADE last night at the first ever Leaders in Trading New York awards ceremony. Beginning his career in 1984 as an FX trading manager at Cargill, based in Chicago, his career spans four decades.

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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 report confirmed that OTC trading represents considerable operational costs, with ISDA agreements coming out on top as the greatest challenge for OTC market participants according to respondents.

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JUNE 15, 2023

SIFMA and its asset management arm have published an open letter expressing concerns about the SEC’s proposal to redefine what constitutes an exchange and expand Regulation ATS, stating that it is not appropriately tailored to existing systems.

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MAY 22, 2024

Groupama Asset Management has entered a strategic partnership with Amundi Intermediation to accelerate the transformation of its execution business. The post Groupama and Amundi team up to boost trading appeared first on The TRADE.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

The board of GAM Holding has announced that Liontrust Asset Management’s offer for the business has been unsuccesful and an agreement made with Rock Investment SAS and Newgame to finance the business’ liquidity needs. of GAM Holding. However, there was immediate backlash from some stakeholders.

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JUNE 8, 2023

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will suspend its Investor Kinetics data service on 31 July, following ongoing concerns from clients and industry participants about information leakage from the service, The TRADE can reveal.

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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. What challenges will Asian and European asset managers face with their FX overlay process?

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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlists for the Leaders in Trading 2024 Buy-Side Awards, in partnership with SIX Swiss Exchange. The winners of each category will be revealed at The TRADE’s annual Leaders in Trading glittering awards night at The Savoy in London on 7 November. The wait is over.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Liquidnet has launched a new pre-trade analytics offering for listed derivatives, available in Europe and the US. With connectivity, staging, algo execution and execution performance management becoming increasingly commoditised, the battle to differentiate has moved to new grounds.

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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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JULY 5, 2023

AllianceBernstein (AB) has expanded its presence in the Middle East with a new office in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), becoming the latest in a string of global asset management firms to set up shop in the region. The move comes as part of AB’s strategic plan to strengthen its presence in the Middle East.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and Broadridge Financial Solutions have launched a new direct connection, between TSE’s ETF trading platform, CONNEQTOR, and Broadridge’s EMS, Xilix. Broadridge’s EMS solution provides a request for quote (RFQ) functionality for institutional investors looking to trade a particular ETF at a particular quantity.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

What is the main challenge when it comes to trading in emerging markets in Asia? Even if local authorities have made strong efforts to develop their local markets, foreign investors still need to get the appropriate approval, not an easy task, for example, in China or India. Trading in East Asia can only grow in the future.

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JULY 13, 2023

The US move to T+1 settlement was passed through in a bid to increase the efficiency of market operations, however an Acuiti report has stated that 53% of asset managers believe that the move will not make US equities more attractive. Just 29% answered that DTO had not had an impact on their trading patterns.

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JULY 31, 2023

HSBC Global Asset Management has named Aaron Waters head of European equity trading, following three and a half years as head of equity trading at the bank, The TRADE can reveal. Before joining AB, he worked as a performance analyst at Henderson Global Investors.

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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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JULY 18, 2023

Kay will continue to lead the distribution function until Barber joins the firm. “I am delighted to have attracted someone of Jill’s calibre to Aviva Investors. The post GAM Investments head of institutional solutions to depart for Aviva Investors appeared first on The TRADE.

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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. Investors will need to think far more about the risk profiles of their portfolios. Phil Steel, senior trader, convertible bonds.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

UK-based asset manager Artemis has selected Northern Trust to provide outsourced trading services for its equities and derivatives activity, effective January 2025. Northern Trust will support all trading activity for Artemis’ equity funds under management and all related over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Lastly, as active management becomes more relevant again, so too the impact a buy-side trader can have on the investment process; gone are the days of execution only dealers.  The post The TRADE predictions series 2024: Market volatility appeared first on The TRADE.

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JUNE 23, 2023

EU asset managers, banks and brokers are urging policy markets not to succumb to pressure that could potentially lead to suboptimal outcomes in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid/r) review.

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JULY 18, 2024

GIX submitted its Form 1 application on 9 May 2023, outlining plans to operate a fully automated electronic trading platform for the trading of listed equities – no physical trading floor is planned. Discussing the aims of GIX, Labovitz tells The TRADE that it comes down to addressing all aspects of an exchange’s offering.

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MARCH 11, 2024

BNY Mellon made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equity sales and trading businesses. Gould joined BNY Mellon after three years at RBC Capital Markets where she previously served as co-head of equities electronic sales and trading. The two will operate as co-CEOs until the end of the year.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Ninety One’s trading team consists of 17 globally with six – soon to be seven – based in London.

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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. We look forward to continuing to build our relationship with New Silk Road to enhance their global trading needs.”

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Eric Heliene, head of buy-side trading desk, Groupama Asset Management  The intensification of financial regulation is a fundamental trend transforming the asset management ecosystem.  While the EU has agreed to a real-time pre- and post-trade consolidated tape (CT) for equities – the devil will be in the detail.

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