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Prime brokerage: The intersection of challenge and opportunity

The TRADE

Settlement overhaul The SEC also greenlit the shift to T+1 settlement earlier this year, as Global Custodian has well-documented. This is a timing problem which causes issues on T+1 if there are any trade discrepancies between the asset manager and the executing broker. Obviously, that process won’t cut it in a T+1 environment.

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Outsourced trading: Easy to do, difficult to get right

The TRADE

Speaking to The TRADE, Dean Gray, head of EMEA outsourced trading at Jefferies, explains: “It has been well documented that the past few years have seen a significant shift in the mindset, especially of the larger funds, towards the adoption of outsourced trading.

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An evolving service provider landscape

The TRADE

David Berney and Michael Broadbent run Ergo Consultancy which delivers what it refers to as provider “beauty parades” for buy-side organisations looking to outsource their trading, whereby it presents all the services in the industry to that asset manager, hedge fund or asset owner.

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Event-Driven Hedge Funds: The Best Home for Bankers Turned Investors?

Mergers and Inquisitions

All the large multi-manager funds , such as Millennium, also use event-driven strategies to some extent. Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM), Pentwater, Silver Point, Anchorage, and King Street. Other well-known funds with a broad event-driven focus include Davidson Kempner, Farallon, HG Vora, Luxor, Canyon, P.

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