The TRADE

AUGUST 30, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, The TRADE can reveal. Union is bolstering its digital assets division, The TRADE understands.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Specifically, the Netherlands-based impact asset manager will utilise Bloomberg’s offerings to enhance processes for its investment funds and discretionary clients’ business. Together, the solutions manage integrated workflows for more than 200 clients – which includes over 100 of the world’s top asset managers (by AUM).

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 24, 2023

“Event-driven hedge funds” is one of the more confusing labels in finance. But the other problem is that all hedge funds are “event-driven” because they invest based on catalysts , or specific events that could change a security’s price. If this fund is right, the company’s price may increase by 50%.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

His experience also encompasses hedge fund related roles, including futures and options trading and work on a fixed income desk. RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT).

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The TRADE

JUNE 28, 2023

Among the key products to now be available to traders and portfolio managers in a modular format is the EMS’ predictive fair value (FV) model. eLiSA has seen increasing buy-side interest of late after it onboarded its first hedge fund client earlier this month.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

LiquidityBook is set to acquire boutique capital markets fintech provider, Messer Financial Software, in a bid to accelerate its multi-asset capabilities. With regard to our buy-side clients, and especially newer or smaller funds, time and again we hear their need to shadow their fund admins or manage their own books and records.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 5, 2023

But one possible exception lies in sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) , which are similar to funds of funds in some ways. I’ll address all these points here and cover the advantages and disadvantages of SWFs, but let’s start with the definitions and overview: What Are Sovereign Wealth Funds?

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Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

Portfolio Management Merchant banking companies provide portfolio management services to high -net-worth individuals and corporate investors. These services include a selection of securities, portfolio monitoring and review, advice on the rationalization of portfolios, and tax planning.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

State Street has expanded the capabilities of its Alpha platform to support the entire lifecycle for exchange traded funds (ETFs).

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, as revealed by The TRADE. His new role is not yet public but will be communicated in due course.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

State Street’s asset management business State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has named Dublin-based Ann Prendergast head of EMEA. She has been with State Street since 2000, beginning as a relationship manager. Previous head of EMEA Rory Tobin retired in June after nine years at State Street Global Advisors.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Instead, a combination of rising interest rates, inflation, soaring energy prices and geopolitical tensions have hit hedge funds, and subsequently the risk management practices of prime brokers. 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.

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The TRADE

MAY 30, 2023

Cheung was previously a strategic account manager at Enfusion, focused on APAC-based hedge funds, family offices and asset management firms. In his new role, Hoong will provide technical account management and support to clients in Hong Kong.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

Up against other individuals from Invesco, Liontrust Asset Management, Baillie Gifford and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), Nutting took home the award after an industry-wide vote. In 2016, Nutting moved to Principia Investment Management Limited where she was an execution trader and fund manager assistant.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The immediate focus for the business is set to be investing in client service and portfolio management, specifically hiring in senior sales and distribution team members focused on Europe and the UK, as well as investment managers for both the luxury brands and credit opportunities strategies.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

More than 200 asset managers, hedge funds and other users of outsourced trading providers voiced their opinions in this first-of-its-kind piece of research. The post Around two-thirds of buy-siders believe outsourced desks could enhance trade performance in cross-border trading appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

Joining the industry after graduating from business school at the age of 20, Papanichola has an impressive track record that spans across five hedge funds and two banks. I cut my teeth in investment trust arbitrage and fund reconstructions. The hedge fund favours what Papanichola pegs as an up-and-coming investment style.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

RBC appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Elsewhere in his career, Chalkley served as a European government bond, inflation and absolute return fund manager at BlackRock.

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The TRADE

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. Following this appointment, Prendergast retains her position as chief executive of State Street Global Advisors Europe.

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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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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

And what happens if the floodgates truly open with the arrival of the $100 billion funds? 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.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Werner Eppacher has spent the entirety of his two-decade financial career with German asset manager DWS Group, catching his first glimpse of a trading floor as an intern for Deutsche Bank in 2003. “A We share the burden of finding budgets and funding things going forward.”

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

With Middle East and North Africa (MENA) becoming a larger part of indices and portfolio managers’ thinking, decisions will have to be taken around how best to trade these markets. Foremost is smooth and continuous trading, meaning an asset manager can work on a global level with minimum hinderance.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

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. There are vendors that are breaking into the market for different asset classes and working out where the gaps are.

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