The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

RBC has appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Before joining RBC, Chalkley spent 11 years at NatWest Markets.

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The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2023

First, orders from various portfolio managers are staged and aggregated before being electronically routed to InvestorAccess. The benefit we are jointly providing to portfolio managers and traders will create greater efficiencies across asset classes as capital markets become increasingly electronic.”

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The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management, joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader. He will also be involved in the ongoing management of the Titan Hybrid Capital, Core Credit, and Short Duration IG income funds.

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

UBS appointed Carlos Salcedo head of capital markets financing sales Americas, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Northern Trust Asset Management appointed Naoto Komoro to lead its asset management business in Japan. as a fund manager for the passive and quantitative investment management department.

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Accenture Capital Markets

JUNE 18, 2024

Generative AI (gen AI) is predicted to impact over two-thirds of all functions across the capital markets industry, suggesting that the technology has the potential to significantly transform all its segments—including asset management. Interested in a conversation? Feel free to reach out to us for a discussion. [1]

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

LiquidityBook is set to acquire boutique capital markets fintech provider, Messer Financial Software, in a bid to accelerate its multi-asset capabilities.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

Smith brings more than 30 years’ experience in the capital markets sector to the role, having worked in various exchanges and regulators, alongside helping develop market and industry standards. He joins from ED&F Man Capital Markets, a company he founded.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

i] [link] [ii] Aite Group survey of 369 financial advisors, Q2 2017 and 403 financial advisors, Q3 2015 [iii] Ibid The post Why Large Wealth Management Firms Can’t Be Ruled Out in the Digital Space appeared first on Accenture Capital Markets Blog.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

Portfolio managers use them without fear, it’s a tool in the box which is not for everybody, but it’s getting there. Boess explained: “The reality is that markets are just getting increasingly interconnected and more and more you see the individual parts of the capital structure being done more closely.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Penny Novick, global co-head of prime brokerage at Morgan Stanley, picks up on this point, stating: “With heightened dispersion across equity markets, hedge funds continue to see strong opportunities to generate alpha globally, which has led to increased levels of gross exposure being deployed across the fundamental long/short universe.

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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. Examples just from just the last six months include UK-based investment management firm Waverton – which has £9.1

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Accenture Capital Markets

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Furthermore, it also provides opportunities to e.g., leverage green cloud to reduce carbon footprint and energy consumption—which might in turn be contributing to clients’ perception of a wealth manager as a responsible business. appeared first on Accenture Capital Markets Blog. The post Is your technology future-ready?

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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

JANUARY 3, 2024

Someone in a firm who brings us in to find an outsourcer has at some point taken risk with their own intellectual capital inside of the firm,” he explains. Raymond McCabe, founder and managing partner of Outset Global, highlights how a dozen of its frontline traders are “pure buy-side” from “big desks”. But they have gone on risk.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These systems touch upon all elements of the trading lifecycle throughout the front-to-middle-to-back-office including execution, order, risk and portfolio management. While perhaps not one of the most exciting aspects of the trade lifecycle, settlement is a central process that acts as a pillar for the capital markets.

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The TRADE

MAY 23, 2024

It is rare, for example, that you’ll find an asset manager worrying about the good of the market or how an order might influence the primary lit market share, over whether or not they have achieved the optimal outcome for their portfolio manager and end investor.

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Peak Frameworks

JULY 20, 2023

Efficient Frontier This is a graphical representation of the optimal portfolios that offer the highest expected return for a defined level of risk. Capital Market Line This line is drawn tangent to the efficient frontier and represents the risk and return trade-off for an efficient portfolio.

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