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A new chapter for RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s London-based fixed income trading desk

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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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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

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You must also consolidate information from various sources and present it effectively to build relationships and execute deals. The Top Commodity Hedge Funds, Trading Firms, and Trading Desks All the large, multi-manager hedge funds use global macro strategies, and some have dedicated commodity groups.

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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.

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Trading at the frontier

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She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. In nothing short of a baptism of fire, he took his first steps into trading in January 2007 in the build-up to the global financial crisis. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets.

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Keeping an aircraft carrier nimble in times of turbulence

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Chicago-based head of US trading at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) Ryan Raymond has seen enough economic turmoil during his career to know what to do when markets turn volatile. Chicago is a very small community and so I knew most of the portfolio managers and management at LGIM America before I came over.

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Wealth Management vs. Investment Banking: Career Deathmatch

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.” Interviews are broader than IB interviews and require knowledge of asset allocation, economics, and and financial markets, but far less specific technical knowledge. However, the “sales shift” starts much earlier in wealth management , as it’s pretty much a sales job from Day 1 (with some analytical work mixed in).