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Appital adds pre-trade price discovery capability to boost natural buy-side liquidity

The TRADE

Buy-side book-building platform Appital has moved to expand its pre-trade price discovery capabilities to allow for greater natural liquidity amongst its buy-side clients. With Price Discovery in Appital Insights, firms are able to generate orders that would otherwise not exist, resulting in increased deal flows and liquidity events.”

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What is VBA for Excel? Here’s Everything You Need To Know

Peak Frameworks

VBA for Excel: A Basic Understanding Definition of VBA VBA, or Visual Basic for Applications, i s an event-driven programming language developed by Microsoft. For example, in 2013, JPMorgan used VBA to build a custom model to forecast loan losses, which helped them save time and improve accuracy.

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Venture capital jobs – what to expect working for a VC

Growth Business

You’ll have portfolio managers or associates dealing only with companies who have already received investment, and finally supportive roles in marketing, administration, and assistants which can be an entry point for people starting a VC career.” Sometimes there are events, but this is a typical day.”

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A new chapter for RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s London-based fixed income trading desk

The TRADE

While traders don’t have the authority to load up trades, outside of execution they are expected to collaborate with their portfolio managers to bring value add to the investment process by making suggestions around idea generation and execution. The trading team work closely in tandem with portfolio managers when preparing a strategy.

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SSGA’s Sharon Ruffles on fixed income trading: It’s a different job every day

The TRADE

Events from the last three years have translated otherwise dormant interest rates into a hive of activity for fixed income traders as global economies work to combat the threat of inflation and recession. Something that has become only too apparent throughout the course of 2023. It gives you a sense of what the systems enable us to scale.”

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Trading at the frontier

The TRADE

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. For him, it is the correlation between real world events and the markets that drew him to his role in finance in the first place.

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DWS Group’s Werner Eppacher: ‘Liquidity is like a shy deer’

The TRADE

He joined DWS Group a year later as a portfolio manager and worked his way up through the ranks, going on to lead teams of PMs focused on a range of instruments that stretched across asset classes. But Eppacher began to notice a distance between himself and the day-to-day action of what was happening in the markets.

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