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Event-Driven Hedge Funds: The Best Home for Bankers Turned Investors?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Event-driven hedge funds” is one of the more confusing labels in finance. Part of the issue is that many different strategies fall within the “event-driven” category: merger arbitrage , activist investing , distressed investing, special situations, and more. By contrast, an event-driven fund would never bet on such a situation.

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Fireside Friday with… State Street Global Advisors’ Khursheda Fazylova

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Our team works in close collaboration with portfolio managers, understanding portfolio construction and the underlying benchmark (e.g. index events, new issuance, downgrades) is extremely important, as poor trading strategy can have a large drag on the performance and can add on to the ‘tracking error’.

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

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Buy-side traders retain control over how and when they interact with liquidity, said Appital, while portfolio managers can also respond to price discovery processes without generating an order in their EMS. Liquidity is subsequently realised. Appital officially launched Appital Insights in September last year.

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Appital Insights completes integration with FactSet Portware EMS

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The offering allows buy-side traders and portfolio managers to gain exposure to liquidity events in relevant equities that meet their minimum average daily volume (ADV) or pricing thresholds, alongside being able to execute large or illiquid equity trades before entering the market via Appital Turquoise BookBuilder.

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Trader of the Year: Millennium’s Charlotte Nutting

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As a trader, I think it is critical to build strong relationships with portfolio managers, brokers and various internal teams, and this is something I look forward to and enjoy on a daily basis. I like how certain assets have their own nuances and are impacted by different market events.

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Appital launches new initiative to help buy-side unlock liquidity

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Traders and portfolio managers will also be able to access exposure to liquidity events in relevant equities meeting their minimum ADC or pricing thresholds. “They want full control on every stage of the order lifecycle.

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Algorithmic trading: Smarter than ever?

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Increasingly, clients are looking for more advanced methods of liquidity seeking, in particular in harder-to-trade stocks during liquidity events, such as the close and monthly expiries. Most algos are based on a schedule and that schedule can be interrupted by events.

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