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The rebundling conundrum

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As Mifid II was introduced at the start of 2018, these fees were separated due to various industry concerns surrounding spending on duplicative or low-quality research. At the time, a significant concern for asset managers was the possibility that access to, and quality of, research would be diminished.

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Royal London Asset Management: ‘At the end of the day, they’re just really good traders’

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Royal London Asset Management’s (RLAM) trading team is no stranger to change. The London-based asset manager has undergone not one but three makeovers in recent years as it continues to evolve with the demands of the street. More recently though, RLAM’s trading team has undergone another revamp.

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People Moves Monday: Matrix Executions, Broadridge and CLSA

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Former director at Cboe Global Markets, Michael Sparacino, has left the exchange operator after less than two years to re-join agency only broker-dealer Matrix Executions. He re-joined the agency only broker-dealer after also previously serving as a director for almost three years from 2019 to 2022.

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Joint trade associations highlight equity, fixed income and market data concerns ahead of upcoming Mifir review

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EU asset managers, banks and brokers are urging policy markets not to succumb to pressure that could potentially lead to suboptimal outcomes in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid/r) review.

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Challenges for the buy-side and research providers become a reality as SEC allows ‘no-action’ research letter to lapse

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Following the implementation of Mifid II in 2018, Europe unbundled trading and research, resulting in all asset managers having to pay for research in cash only. European asset managers looking for diversity and greater competition in US broker research will also be impacted by the lapse.

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An evolving service provider landscape

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The narrative of the service being used solely by smaller hedge funds has been replaced by suggestions that outsourced trading is gathering pace among larger fund managers. Coalition Greenwich points out that from 2018 to 2022 the number of outsourced trading providers grew from fewer than 10 to more than 40.

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Eyes on a new prize: How outsourced trading has taken off and why the attention is now turning to larger managers

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For some asset managers and hedge funds, the seemingly impossible notion of all traders not physically sitting together on a centralised desk and communicating face-to-face was all but wiped away overnight as the hybrid working setup was forcibly tested and passed with flying colours.