The TRADE

AUGUST 30, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, The TRADE can reveal. Union is bolstering its digital assets division, The TRADE understands.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 12, 2024

StoneX Group has appointed former head of trading at Incline Global Management, Evan Halpern, as managing director of fixed income outsourced trading, The TRADE can reveal. Throughout his career, Halpern has held trading and portfolio management roles at a wide selection of firms.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 10, 2024

Impax Asset Management has entered into an agreement to acquire the corporate credit assets from fixed income manager Absalon Corporate Credit, part of Formuepleje Group. Upon completion, Impax’s newly combined global team will have pro-forma fixed income assets under management and advice of £1.6 The sum has not been disclosed.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 1, 2024

Lambert joins Fidelity from MFS Investment Management where she spent the last five years, most recently serving as investment officer, fixed income trader. Initially during her tenure at BNY Mellon, she served as an assistant portfolio manager, fixed income. Excited for a new challenge and opportunity to continue learning!”

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The TRADE

JANUARY 5, 2024

Jefferies’ managing director and head of US equity distribution in Europe, Guy Trust, has left the bank after nearly a decade to join Daiwa Capital Markets Europe, The TRADE can reveal. He began his career as a junior portfolio manager at RSA covering US equities.

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The TRADE

JULY 12, 2024

Rikki Corbyn has left State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following 11 and a half years with the firm, The TRADE has learnt. The TRADE’s Rising Stars initiative, recognising the budding buy-side talents of the institutional trading space, returns in October 2024, its tenth year.

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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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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Almost all conversations about buy-side roles eventually turn to multi-manager hedge funds , also known as “pod shops.” Multi-manager hedge funds promise investors solid risk-adjusted returns with low volatility; no matter what the broader market does, you’ll make money if you invest in them.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

UK-based boutique fixed income trading desk BlueBay Asset Management is beginning a new chapter in its life. The move has opened up swathes of synergy opportunities for the pure fixed income asset manager, with its traders now working directly alongside RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s equities desk.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A Citadel equity trader and senior associate has left the firm to join Ilex Capital, The TRADE can reveal. According to an update on his social media, Jack Boland has joined Ilex Capital in a US equity trading and global equity capital markets role. The post Citadel trader joins Ilex Capital appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Over the past decade, technological advancements and increasing financial regulations have been the primary drivers behind the evolution of trading analytics and transaction cost analysis (TCA). These components are the backbone of the PGGM trading analytics desk. How can TCA use be further optimised/automated on the trading desk?

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, as revealed by The TRADE. She currently serves as head of RepoClear and collateral management at LCH SA.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Macquarie Group has appointed Dylan Kluth head of equites trading for Asia Pacific, The TRADE can reveal. Kluth has been promoted to the role after serving as portfolio manager/analyst at the firm over the last two years.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched the first actively managed corporate and municipal target maturity bond ETFs in the US market. The suite consists of 14 actively managed target maturity ETFs with various maturity years ranging from 2026 to 2034. The suite is made up of both corporate bond and municipal bond ETFs.

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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. Before joining MEAG, Malakis held senior sales positions with international asset managers, including Generali Insurance, Vanguard International and Schroders.

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The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

UBS selected one of its newly acquired Credit Suisse staff to replace its retiring global head of execution services, Brent Johnson, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. He began his trading career at UBS in Hong Kong. Livingstone previously served as head of trading – FX and ETFs at Tavistock Investments.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2019, Nutting was nominated by her industry peers as one of The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution, and just four years later, she was shortlisted for The TRADE’s coveted Buy-side Trader of the Year Award. That same year, she was recognised by The TRADE and the industry as a Rising Star of Trading and Execution.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 15, 2024

Zakria Hussain has left Crédit Agricole, where he most recently served as global head of eFX spot trading, to join Nomura Group’s digital assets subsidiary Laser Digital as head of OTC trading. Liquidnet appointed Lara Jacobs as head of international client trading EMEA.

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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 7, 2024

How would you describe the dynamic of the trading desk [at State Street Global Advisors]? Our team works in close collaboration with portfolio managers, understanding portfolio construction and the underlying benchmark (e.g. What are the main topics the fixed income trading team are focused on? But who knows!

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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

AUGUST 29, 2023

Vahid joins AllianzGI from UBS Asset Management where he served in a variety of roles over the last 20 years. Prior to that, he served as a portfolio manager for European small and mid-caps as well as a European equities research analyst.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Order and execution management platform, Adroit Trading Technologies, has raised $15 million in its series A funding round led by specialised growth equity firm, Centana Growth Partners, with the capital set to be used to accelerate the business’ growth. It services the likes of Invesco.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

BTON Financial is a cloud-based, AI, and data-driven Software as a Service (SaaS) solution developed to aid buy-side trading desks with reducing costs while still increasing performance. The post FlexTrade and BTON Financial deliver AI-powered trading automation solution appeared first on The TRADE.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Triodos Investment Management has selected Bloomberg’s AIM and PORT Enterprise solutions in a bid to support its front-office workflows. Through the adoptions, Triodos is set to benefit from enhanced pre-trade compliance and data consistency across its consolidated front-office processes.

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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. However, an undeniable surge has occurred across the trading sphere over the last few years, with decidedly mixed results. And the number is climbing.

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The TRADE

APRIL 5, 2024

Kepler Cheuvreux subsidiary Ellipsis Asset Management has moved to expand its capabilities in the convertible bond segment with the acquisition of Rothschild & Co’s business. As part of the deal two Rothschild portfolio managers – Cristina Jarrin and Mikael Dauvert – will move to Ellipsis AM.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

What are the benefits of merging trading across asset classes? The key benefits of merging the trading function to be multi-asset have to come down to efficiency and scale, both as it relates to the execution of trades but also on how the trader operates when observing markets, providing market colour and looking at data.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 29, 2024

Buy-side book-building platform Appital has moved to expand its pre-trade price discovery capabilities to allow for greater natural liquidity amongst its buy-side clients. This aligns with our strategy to deliver unique workflows to trading and investment teams. Liquidity is subsequently realised.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

State Street has expanded the capabilities of its Alpha platform to support the entire lifecycle for exchange traded funds (ETFs). Users will be able to send orders directly from their OMS to the ETF portal. The post State Street to support entire ETF lifecycle through Alpha platform appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 2, 2023

Edouard Petitcollot Candriam has overhauled its global trading structure in a bid to refocus its attention on more complex and high touch trading strategies, The TRADE can reveal. Edouard Petitcollot will lead the operation as global head of trading. High touch trading can be renewed.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Ninety One’s trading team consists of 17 globally with six – soon to be seven – based in London.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents. And, like most asset managers across the street, its global equity trading desk plays host to a variety of characters, each bringing their own individual string to the wider team’s bow.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Christoph Hock, head of multi-asset trading at Union Investment, accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading 2023 gala awards ceremony last night. The TRADE would like to extend its congratulations to Hock for his long-standing commitment and service to the industry.

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The TRADE

JUNE 28, 2023

Wavelabs has opened up its eLiSA execution management system (EMS) to non-users with modular versions of the system’s analytics products, The TRADE can reveal. A user can access the analytics either via API or through a small user interface which can be integrated with a trading environment.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

MarketAxess has expanded its decade-long partnership with BlackRock to integrate its credit trading protocols, pricing and data into the latter’s Aladdin order execution management system (OEMS). Risk analytics are combined with portfolio management, trading, operations, and accounting tools on a single, unified platform. “As

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