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People Moves Monday: Nomura’s Laser Digital, Liquidnet and StoneX Group

The TRADE

This followed an internship at M&G Investments in 2017. StoneX Group appointed former head of trading at Incline Global Management, Evan Halpern, managing director of fixed income outsourced trading. Throughout his career, Halpern has held trading and portfolio management roles at a wide variety of firms.

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Why Large Wealth Management Firms Can’t Be Ruled Out in the Digital Space

Accenture Capital Markets

i] [link] [ii] Aite Group survey of 369 financial advisors, Q2 2017 and 403 financial advisors, Q3 2015 [iii] Ibid The post Why Large Wealth Management Firms Can’t Be Ruled Out in the Digital Space appeared first on Accenture Capital Markets Blog.

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People Moves Monday: UBS, Titan Asset Management, IEX Group and more…

The TRADE

Hosie originally joined Credit Suisse in 2017 as its head of equities Asia Pacific, later assuming responsibility of the asset class for both Asia Pacific and EMEA and eventually taking up the role in a global capacity in 2023. He took up the role on an interim basis in March. He began his trading career at UBS in Hong Kong.

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

The TRADE

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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Single-Manager Hedge Funds: The Best Way to Get a Recurring Guest Spot on CNBC?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Depending on your personality, skill set, and long-term goals, these single-manager funds or “hybrid funds” could be perfect or far from ideal: What Are Single-Manager Hedge Funds? Team-managed funds are in the murky middle, neither particularly good nor particularly bad.”

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

The TRADE

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

The TRADE

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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