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Trader of the Year Hedge Fund: Conversant Capital’s David Alfred

The TRADE

I spent a lot of time in my sell-side days working as a conduit between capital markets and the origination desk within investment banking as a bridge into the public side, covering hedge funds and multi strategy investment managers for anything equity-linked and credit with a cross-asset mindset. It’s been busy.

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Trading at the frontier

The TRADE

The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Markets are constantly challenging and that’s the key aspect to our role.” The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. Markets have been tricky.

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2023 Second Quarter Review & Commentary

FineMark

The stark differences in index performance, specifically the effects of mega-cap technology listings and their disproportionately large weights in the S&P 500, are also worth highlighting. Some of this weightiness can be seen in the performance disparity to date between the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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The TRADE announces Leaders in Trading 2024 award winners

The TRADE

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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