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

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. This focus on front-office was further shown by 46% of respondents highlighting ‘sales and distribution’.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ronan McMahon has been appointed algorithmic sales trader at CLSA, following his departure from Morgan Stanley back in May. Earlier this year, trading, portfolio and risk management solutions provider TS Imagine added CLSA’s AI-powered European algo suite to its list of certified brokers.

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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

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

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

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

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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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

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

MAY 15, 2024

We are proud to announce a newly integrated set of markets sales and trading capabilities for clients provided by Global Markets Trading. In addition, the firm’s newly launched Buy-side Trading Solutions offering provides multi-asset trading services to support global portfolio implementation at scale.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

Prior to that, he spent six and a half years at State Street Global Markets in a portfolio solutions role. Previously, Williams served as an investment account manager at Northern Trust. Fixed income investment banking boutique KNG Securities appointed Fernando Ortega as its new head of emerging market sales.

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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 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. Kepler Cheuvreux Execution Services (KCx) appointed Seb Klatt as program trading (PT) sales trader.

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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

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

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 18, 2023

BlackRock selected a former FlexTrade order management system pre-sales specialist for a solutions engineering role on its flagship Aladdin platform. Grasso joined FlexTrade last year after three and a half years at Bloomberg, also with a buy-side OMS focus, most recently serving as an account manager for its AIM solution.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This has forced prime brokers to focus more on risk management and diversification of their client portfolios with increased regulatory pressures.” The market volatility has certainly been a defining feature of the year, for both clients and providers, and gave rise to opportunities for certain strategies, while costing others dearly.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

During his time with the asset manager, Taitz was responsible for Invesco’s fixed income trading desks in the US, UK and Hong Kong. Goldman Sachs veteran, Christopher Daur, left the investment bank to head up buy-side sales and relationships at AccessFintech.

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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

MAY 30, 2023

TS Imagine has expanded its team in the Asia Pacific with two new appointments from investment management fintech Enfusion. Stephanie Cheung has been appointed sales director, while An Hoong will work within the account management team, responsible for technical account management and client support.

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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. Prior to GAM, Roberts was co-head of EMEA retail sales and head of UK retail business at BlackRock.

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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. In addition, he will focus on ensuring close coordination between the FX trading and sales teams.

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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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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Technology is at the forefront of this movement and the electronification/automation of many parts of the execution function allow the human element of trading to be more focused on larger, more complex trades that carry greater risk and as the role of trading develops, into other areas of the overall asset management business.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Nature of the Work: Markets, Analysis, Sales, and Interpersonal Skills Wealth management (WM) requires broader knowledge of the financial markets since you may have to advise clients on everything from their portfolio allocations to upcoming tax changes. Think: benchmarking portfolios rather than modeling companies.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

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. Foremost is smooth and continuous trading, meaning an asset manager can work on a global level with minimum hinderance.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 24, 2023

5) Portfolio Concentration – Many special situations and distressed funds run concentrated portfolios (e.g., 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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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Distressed assets offer non-correlated returns, similar to global macro.” These are nice sales pitches, but the reality is quite different. Special Situations – This could include the events above but could also refer to investments in spin-offs, asset sales, recapitalizations, acquisitions, or capital raises.

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The TRADE

JULY 30, 2024

It’s going to disrupt the traditional mutual fund market and I truly believe it’s going to position ETFs as the wrapper of choice for managers,” says Chris Gooch, head of ETF/index sales and business development, EMEA at Citi. However, with time, adoption of active ETFs is becoming more apparent. “The

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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. The list goes on.

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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. Previously in his career, Hagan also spent four years on the sell-side at Société Générale in various FX sales roles. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

Brendan Burke, Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) managing director and head of Americas FX sales and business development tells The TRADE: “Managers need to be comfortable that execution via an outsourced platform is comparable to managing the process in-house. were in $50-100 billion and another 2.5%

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The TRADE

AUGUST 18, 2023

As a company, we find ourselves in the middle of a perfect storm of technology advancement, proliferation of data, and regulatory changes that are really pushing more and more wind into the sales of market infrastructure providers like us to increase automation of trading across the board.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Subject to regulatory approvals, the service will come through its Amsterdam-based clearing house and introduce matching, CCP clearing, settlement and post-trade lifecycle management for SFT transactions in European cash equities and ETFs, and settlement will take place in 19 European Central Securities Depositories (CSDs).

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