The TRADE

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The highly anticipated award for Trader of the Year – Long Only went to Chris Fiorito of River Road Asset Management. Meanwhile, the award for Trader of the Year – Hedge Fund was given to David Alfred of Conversant Capital. Rowe Price was awarded Fixed Income Trading Desk of the Year.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Jack Boland joined Ilex Capital in a US equity trading and global equity capital markets role. Prior to joining Citadel in 2019, Boland spent five years at BlackRock as an associate and later a trader and just under a year at HBK Capital Management as a trader before that.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry stalwart Dan Hinxman joined Bloomberg as head of European credit electronic trading following almost six years as managing director at TP ICAP. RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT).

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Global Banking & Finance

APRIL 5, 2024

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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. Blockchain. Robotic Process Automation.

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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. Prior to joining Invesco in 2016, Taitz spent two and a half years at RBC Capital Markets in a fixed income role and 10 and a half years at UBS Investment Bank as an executive vice president.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Atkins joined Redburn Atlantic in 2004 as a sales trader having previously served for eight years at Morgan Grenfell and two years at Marathon Asset Management. Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) promoted one of its own to the role of head of US equity and foreign exchange trading.

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The TRADE

MARCH 8, 2024

In the role he has been chairperson for Clearstream and covered Investment Management Solutions segment with ISS STOXX and SimCorp. Martin Jetter, chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Börse AG, said: “Stephan Leithner is a proven and recognised expert in the capital markets to be CEO.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The traditional RPA approach used by large financial services players usually doesn’t easily work in institutional investing. This is mostly because a large share of the total spend is related to front-office costs that RPA does not address, such as staff compensation, investment management fees and deal costs.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

“One of the key reasons Singapore is an attractive market is it’s pretty well positioned, as it shares the same time zone as Hong Kong,” Gerard Walsh, global head of capital markets client solutions at Northern Trust, told The TRADE. This year, the industry has seen interest in Singapore grow from the buy-side too.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In another individual award recognition, Ed Wicks of Legal & General Investment Management, was honoured with the Buy-Side Market Structure Expert of the Year award.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2024

Despite worries in the lead up to the monumental shift, many have managed to adapt their workflows to evade issues across the ETF market, securities lending and FX alike, while adapting to affirmation and central trade matching platforms to achieve straight through processing. UK market structure isn’t that complicated.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

Outsourced trading, though undoubtedly a contentious topic, is something that has been around in capital markets for decades in some form or another. Like many managed services, a provider needs to have scale and be able to deliver a quality offering combining client service, technology and trading expertise.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This edition’s cover star is none other than Legal and General Investment Management’s (LGIM) head of US trading, Ryan Raymond, and the fun does not stop there as featuring as our Meet the Desk interview for this quarter is the London-based trading team at Ninety One.

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The Deal

JULY 18, 2023

“Credit funds have become the go-to for financing—they can cut big checks and raise money with relative ease with a track record,” said Joe Stein , managing director at Solomon Partners. That’s made these firms more attractive to sponsors and sellers, giving the asset class an upper hand in setting buyout terms.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

The narrative of the service being used solely by smaller hedge funds has been replaced by suggestions that outsourced trading is gathering pace among larger fund managers. Raymond McCabe, founder and managing partner of Outset Global, highlights how a dozen of its frontline traders are “pure buy-side” from “big desks”.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. I spent eight years on the sell-side in various fixed income trading roles, before jumping to the buy-side, and to BlackRock, where I am today.

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Peak Frameworks

JULY 20, 2023

At the heart of financial management and investing lies a crucial question: " How can we maximize returns while minimizing risk?" It's the investment equivalent of not putting all your eggs in one basket. Conclusion In the intricate world of finance, understanding and leveraging effective strategies is crucial.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The pandemic marked a seminal moment across the capital markets, effectively drawing a line between the old world and the new. And soon, it may no longer be just a service that applies to smaller fund managers. It’s no longer all or nothing. It’s no longer relinquishing control. It’s no longer just a defensive play.

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