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Chasing innovation on Robeco’s global equity trading desk: ‘In order to stay good, we need to become better’

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However, unlike the many buy-side desks looking to achieve synergies by merging asset classes, Robeco chose to separate its trading desks by asset class in 2017 in the pursuit of greater efficiency. The asset manager now has its core desks for equities, fixed income and foreign exchange in Rotterdam.

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DWS Group’s Werner Eppacher: ‘Liquidity is like a shy deer’

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He joined DWS Group a year later as a portfolio manager and worked his way up through the ranks, going on to lead teams of PMs focused on a range of instruments that stretched across asset classes. But Eppacher began to notice a distance between himself and the day-to-day action of what was happening in the markets.

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Outsourced trading: Easy to do, difficult to get right

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Hantman tells The TRADE: “Between 2017-2019, especially in the UK and Europe, there was a lot of pressure for traders to justify their worth, especially considering things like Mifid II unbundling. Examples just from just the last six months include UK-based investment management firm Waverton – which has £9.1

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The 20 greatest trading innovations

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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. Tradeweb launched its all-to-all corporate bond trading functionality in 2017.

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