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RBC appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2006, Hilton spent six years at UBS Investment Bank as a director.
Burke joined MarketAxess from Standard Chartered, where he most recently served as managing director, based in Singapore. Elsewhere in his tenure at Standard Chartered, Burke served as global head of electronic and algo trading, based in London.
Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan AssetManagement, joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader. In this position, he is set to assist Peter Doherty, head of fixed income and investment associate, Christopher Turdean in developing the fixed income trading.
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Peel Hunt Peel Hunt’s head of electronic and program trading Nishad Vallonthaiel is departing for pastures new, The TRADE can reveal. Vallonthaiel was appointed head of electronic and program trading at Peel Hunt in 2023 after most recently serving at Numis Securities.
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Acadian AssetManagement appointed Jian Du vice president, senior trader in its Sydney office. Du joined the assetmanager from Goldman Sachs, where he most recently served as executive director of electronic trading, also based in Sydney. Elsewhere in his tenure at Dimensional, he served as an analyst.
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Dom Lowres, head of execution strategy and Matthew West, electronic sales trader, at Liberum are set to join Investec in the coming months to set up a new low touch electronic desk. Lowres joins Investec as head of electronic trading and execution strategy after almost 17 years with Liberum.
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What is driving the purported ‘comeback’ of traditional assetmanagers? This alone was enough to make institutional assetmanagers wary of making moves. However, macroeconomic uncertainty, particularly due to historic inflationary pressures and rising yields, kept traditional assetmanagers cautious.
Gould joined BNY Mellon after three years at RBC Capital Markets where she previously served as co-head of equities electronic sales and trading. He was most recently head of EMEA equity trading, overseeing a team of 14 traders covering the scope of equities and equity derivatives execution for the entirety of BlackRock’s investment teams.
Hepsworth was appointed to the desk at the London-headquartered assetmanager after spending the last four and a half years at MarketAxess in a facilitation trading role. UBS has chosen Aleksandar Ivanovic to succeed Suni Harford as president of assetmanagement upon her departure, with the appointment effective from 1 March.
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We expect an acceleration in firms moving away from heavily investing in aggregating, owning, storing and engineering these data sets, time and time again when high-quality, curated and maintained historical data and analytics are available for all. Every assetmanager is looking to rationalise its technology footprint and spend.
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Beginning her career on the buy-side at boutique assetmanager Credit Suisse First Boston as an investment portfolio analyst in London in 1986, Ruffles has seen the markets through several highs and lows. When I joined State Street in 2004, we were electronically trading then. “In A novel concept to greener traders.
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The electronic trading platform enables participants to address challenges associated with accessing liquidity and executing efficiently. In July, LTX integrated with BlackRock’s end-to-end investmentmanagement and operations platform Aladdin as part of the next phase of the pair’s multi-year partnership.
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The active investmentmanager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London AssetManagement where she had been head of dealing for three years. You’ve got competing market makers that you are up against. “You’ve
In recent years, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have undergone significant evolution, shifting from simple passive investment instruments to more versatile tools that help reinforce a range of strategies. Initially known to track broad market indices, today’s ETFs cover niche sectors and even include thematic investments.
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