PCE

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the complex world of modern finance, the importance of portfolio valuations cannot be overstated. These valuations are crucial for fund and investment managers, as transparency and consistency is important for individual investors, large institutions and other stakeholders.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Head of Europe for UK-based asset manager Federated Hermes, James Rutherford, has stepped down from his role to pursue a technology venture, The TRADE can reveal. He departs following a 35-year long career in investment management, spending 19 years at Fidelity Investments as a European portfolio manager until 2006.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 25, 2023

BNY Mellon has launched a new foreign exchange (FX) platform, meeting client demands to manage execution across their entire portfolio and access improved price transparency. The post BNY Mellon launches new FX platform to help manage execution and access to price transparency appeared first on The TRADE.

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PE Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

QuadReal Property Group is the real estate investment arm of British Columbia Investment Management Corp. The post QuadReal buys 50% interest in CA’s US student housing portfolio appeared first on PE Hub.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2024

UK asset manager Gravis Capital Management has become the latest to integrate Bloomberg AIM in a bid to enhance its front-office workflows. The asset manager already uses Bloomberg’s portfolio and risk analytics solution, Bloomberg PORT and through the addition of AIM, it now has front-to-back workflow.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Market data provider big xyt has launched its new portfolio liquidity analysis solution, developed in partnership with Baillie Gifford, to address dilution levy guidance impacting the buy-side. The new solution provides buy-side firms with an independent view of the liquidity of equity portfolios by using market data.

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The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

Bloomberg AIM and Bloomberg Vault have been adopted by India-based NJ Asset Management to help enable its enterprise-wide digital strategy across the entire investment workflow. According to the firms, Bloomberg AIM addresses NJ Asset Management’s specific needs for tools to support rule-based investment decision-making.

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The TRADE

MARCH 25, 2024

State Street’s Charles River is set to manage the front-office operations for Perpetual Group’s Australian asset management business. Craig Squires, group chief operating officer at Perpetual, explained that the decision came as the business sought to address current challenges and complexities across investment management.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

MAY 7, 2024

May 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Multifamily owner-operator and investment manager Pacific Urban Investors (“Pacific”) has acquired Viridian, a 420-unit apartment community in Greenwood Village, CO. The acquisition marks Pacific’s fourth investment in the Denver market with the firm’s regional portfolio now totaling 884 units.

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

Before joining MEAG, Malakis held senior sales positions with international asset managers, including Generali Insurance, Vanguard International and Schroders. Northern Trust Asset Management appointed Naoto Komoro to lead its asset management business in Japan.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

JULY 26, 2023

July 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Multifamily owner-operator and investment manager Pacific Urban Investors has acquired The Residences at River’s Edge, a 222-unit apartment community in Medford, MA. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

He most recently served as an investment manager at ADQ and before that spent two and a half years as a senior trader and portfolio manager at Azimut. Elijah Ibrahim Diallo has joined Magellan Capital as a multi-strategy trader, based in the UAE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

. “In today’s complex and fast-paced investment landscape, real-time performance attribution can provide transparency and clarity regarding the drivers of financial returns, particularly in portfolio construction and active risk management,” said Lars Ole Hansen, global product manager at SimCorp.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Read more: Kepler Cheuvreux head of equity sales trading departs Akar has also previously served as an associate, equities strategy, at quantitative investment management firm Winton. Kepler Cheuvreux has appointed Faruk Akar as PT sales trader, based in London.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 8, 2024

German asset manager BayernInvest has adopted an integrated suite of Bloomberg solutions to support its front-to-back workflows. Expanding our engagement with Bloomberg as our technology partner has enabled us to streamline our investment management and operations workflows,” said Alexander Mertz, chief executive of BayernInvest. “It

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Michael Lam joined TT International as a senior trader, following three and a half years at Jupiter Asset Management as a fixed income trader. He has previous experience across multi-asset trading and his past roles include stints as a multi asset trader at Manulife Investment Management and BNP Paribas Asset Management.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

JP Morgan subsidiary Neovest has moved to expand its capabilities in the hedge fund sphere with the acquisition of investment management platform LayerOne Financial. Users will be able to send orders to their brokers, manage positions, monitor portfolios, and conduct risk assessments and compliance checks from a unified platform.

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The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management has joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader, according to an announcement on social media. Livingstone has previously served as head of trading – FX and ETFs at Tavistock Investments.

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PE Hub

MAY 24, 2023

In her new role, Butler will oversee investment management for the fund as it continues to scale its portfolio of private real estate equity and credit investments. The post KKR Real Estate Trust taps Butler as chief investment officer appeared first on PE Hub.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Chicago-based head of US trading at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) Ryan Raymond has seen enough economic turmoil during his career to know what to do when markets turn volatile. Chicago is a very small community and so I knew most of the portfolio managers and management at LGIM America before I came over.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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. Previously in his career, he undertook several banking, capital markets, and portfolio management internships across PwC, KPMG UK, BlackRock, and Jefferies.

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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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The TRADE

AUGUST 5, 2024

He joins from HSBC, where he most recently he held responsibility for primary coverage on G10 rates for reserve managers and UK real money clients. Fidelity Investments appointed Sarah Lambert senior trader, based in Boston. Initially during her tenure at BNY Mellon, she served as an assistant portfolio manager, fixed income.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Read more: Fireside Friday with… Morgan Stanley’s Maria Salamanca Mejia Previously in his career, McMahon worked as a centralised dealer at Bank of Ireland Asset Management, working on the multi-asset global trading desk.

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The TRADE

JULY 12, 2024

Asia-based insurance giant AIA Group has selected BNY and BlackRock to provide a front-to-back investment platform, supporting the firm’s long-term investment programme. We look forward to working with BNY to deliver a seamless experience to AIA.”

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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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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 18, 2023

announced this morning its acquisition of Boxed.com and “other intellectual property portfolios and affiliates” in an all-cash transaction. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April, online wholesale retailer Boxed has been acquired. based regional distributor MSG Distributors, Inc.

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The TRADE

MAY 30, 2023

TS Imagine has expanded its team in the Asia Pacific with two new appointments from investment management fintech Enfusion. Stephanie Cheung has been appointed sales director, while An Hoong will work within the account management team, responsible for technical account management and client support.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The immediate focus for the business is set to be investing in client service and portfolio management, specifically hiring in senior sales and distribution team members focused on Europe and the UK, as well as investment managers for both the luxury brands and credit opportunities strategies.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

RBC appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Elsewhere in his career, Chalkley served as a European government bond, inflation and absolute return fund manager at BlackRock.

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The TRADE

JUNE 29, 2023

Specialist multi-asset manager Candriam and its parent company New York Life Investments have expanded their partnership to grow their remit in the US offshore market. Following the expansion of the partnership, the pair will offer solutions and services to non-US resident investors who invest through US intermediaries.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

As part of the new system-wide exploratory scenario (SWES) exercise, participants including major banks, hedge funds, asset managers and pension funds will be asked to evaluate the impact of “severe but plausible” stress including what actions they might individually take in that scenario, with a focus on the UK markets.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

Up against other individuals from Invesco, Liontrust Asset Management, Baillie Gifford and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), Nutting took home the award after an industry-wide vote. In 2016, Nutting moved to Principia Investment Management Limited where she was an execution trader and fund manager assistant.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

GAM heads, Mark Hawtin and Jeremy Roberts, are set to join Liontrust Asset Management in the coming months as head of global growth equities, and head of global distribution (ex UK), respectively. The deal, once completed, was set to create a global asset manager with £53 billion in assets under management and administration.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

As Rebecca Crowe, managing director and chief operating officer, BNY Mellon Markets, previously told The TRADE, “Years ago, it was the middle-office who were contemplating outsourcing and people couldn’t even consider that you would allow somebody into your books and records in that way.” An active manager needs an active desk.”

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