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JUNE 9, 2023

Fixed income trading venue and data provider MarketAxess has expanded its integration with the Investortool platform for its municipal bond activity From now, MarketAxess’ offerings will be displayed on the Investortools Dealer Network (IDN) as it seeks to expand its electronic municipal trading.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Greg Finke joined the boutique asset manager after just over a year at Rothschild & Co as a senior investment dealer covering equities. Prior to joining Rothschild in January 2023, Finke spent nearly five years at Marathon Asset Management as a global equity trader covering equities and FX.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Technology vendor Broadridge also explains the change in procedures for asset managers delivering trade details to prime brokers and coordinating information among the asset manager, executing brokers and PBs. “Currently, buy-side firms deliver trade data to executing brokers and prime brokers separately.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

State Street’s asset management business State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) named Dublin-based Ann Prendergast head of EMEA. She has been with State Street since 2000, beginning as a relationship manager. Arqaam confirmed that Shalabi will have a specific focus on enhancing the firm’s electronic trading capabilities as well.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’ve always worked in the asset management industry, starting my first job at 18 with Scottish Amicable Investment Management in Glasgow. From the banking team at Scot Asset Management, I moved firms in 1999 to take up a role in trade settlements. What has your journey to the trading desk been like?

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APRIL 17, 2024

Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents. And, like most asset managers across the street, its global equity trading desk plays host to a variety of characters, each bringing their own individual string to the wider team’s bow.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Beginning her career on the buy-side at boutique asset manager 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 asks Ruffles. Absolutely yes.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Technology is at the forefront of this movement and the electronification/automation of many parts of the execution function allow the human element of trading to be more focused on larger, more complex trades that carry greater risk and as the role of trading develops, into other areas of the overall asset management business.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Finding fixed income After spending three months as a trading assistant intern at PPM America, Raymond landed his first permanent buy-side position, joining UBS Asset Management as an operations assistant in 2003. Helming the US business of one of the largest asset managers in the world through such a course is no mean feat.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets. This context is crucial for our day-to-day operations. You’ve got competing market makers that you are up against.

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JULY 17, 2023

On the other hand, foreign exchange – the largest financial market in the world – benefits from the fact that trading is not limited to one central location but is instead conducted between participants by phone and electronic communication networks (ECNs) in a wide range of markets globally.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Axes are no longer the preserve of the trading desk at asset managers. The use of this data by the portfolio management function means they can better represent their investment process by taking liquidity into account. Dealers still need to get better at distributing their data and managing where it goes to.

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MAY 23, 2024

It is rare, for example, that you’ll find an asset manager worrying about the good of the market or how an order might influence the primary lit market share, over whether or not they have achieved the optimal outcome for their portfolio manager and end investor. They’re built for slightly different purposes.”

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

Jamil Jiva, global head of asset management, Linedata As we leave 2024 behind, artificial intelligence is set to transform industry practices. From risk management and regulatory compliance to predictive analytics and cybersecurity, AI promises to bring a new era of transparency, efficiency and innovation to the finance ecosystem.

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JANUARY 2, 2025

As a growing Asian quantitative asset manager, our focus will be on Australia, India and Japan. Elsewhere, Japan is fostering growth in its asset management sector by encouraging individual savings and operational reforms among listed companies.

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