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Top 3 Trends for the Institutional Investing & Pension Funds Space in 2018

Accenture Capital Markets

The year ahead will be busy for institutional investors and pension funds as they navigate political turbulence and speculations around when the economic cycle will shift. The industry is rethinking how to manage the generation, storage, transformation, usage and retirement of both structured and unstructured data.

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Outsourced trading: Easy to do, difficult to get right

The TRADE

Outsourced trading, though undoubtedly a contentious topic, is something that has been around in capital markets for decades in some form or another. If firms can receive front, middle and back-office solutions packaged as one and have to sacrifice the trading quality to get those economics they often do it,” he explains.

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The Big Interview: Laura-Jane Purnell

The TRADE

It wasn’t until university, where I studied economics, that potential career paths became apparent. I began my buy-side journey on the ETF capital markets team, a product and market infrastructure I had no experience of, which was incredibly exciting and daunting at the same time. My rational was twofold.

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Don’t sleep on emerging markets fixed income

The TRADE

With the advent of an ever-more technologically innovative and globally connected capital markets sphere, fixed income emerging markets (EM) have demonstrably become an increasingly appealing area of interest for investors.

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It’s Private Credit’s World

The Deal

But the asset class has also carried over its caution from the second half of last year amid economic uncertainty and a tighter fundraising environment. For much of 2023 private credit has kept its doors open for M&A.

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Eyes on a new prize: How outsourced trading has taken off and why the attention is now turning to larger managers

The TRADE

The pandemic marked a seminal moment across the capital markets, effectively drawing a line between the old world and the new. Ultimately, outsourced trading as a service is in a great position with demand set to continue rising, breadth of asset classes increasing and a new sub-section of larger managers coming to the fore.

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