The TRADE

JULY 15, 2024

Impax Asset Management Group has completed its acquisition of Absalon Corporate Credit’s fixed income assets. Last week, Impax also revealed that it had also entered into an agreement to acquire fixed income manager, SKY Harbour Capital Management’s European assets.

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The TRADE

JULY 29, 2024

David Kirk is set to join Millennium, following almost three and a half years at Marble Bar Asset Management where he most recently served as a trader, The TRADE understands. Kirk joins the capital management firm with experience working as a trader on both the buy- and sell-side.

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The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2024

Credit Suisse has signed an agreement to sell its majority stake in Credit Suisse Investment Partners (CSIP), owned by Credit Suisse Asset Management. CSIP segment manages funds and associated mandates – including convertible bond funds – with a total of CHF 1 billion in assets under management.

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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

JUNE 19, 2023

He also spent several years at Goldman Sachs in a risk management and product control role. Prior to that, he spent six and a half years at State Street Global Markets in a portfolio solutions role. Previously, Williams served as an investment account manager at Northern Trust.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2025

I spent the first 20 years of my career at the global bulge bracket banks, first in investment banking and then on the institutional equity desks, in a cross-asset and special situations role. I started my career at Bear Stearns in 2001, then migrated to Credit Suisse in 2008. There’s been a reopening in capital markets.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The deal will provide clients with ETF selection tools for manager and fund selection, as well as innovative portfolio construction tools. Kepler Cheuvreux has acquired a majority stake in ETF selection and analysis platform Trackinsight.

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Solganick & Co.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

September 2, 2024 – The software mergers and acquisitions (M&A) marketplace has been bustling with activity in the first half of 2024, reflecting the sector’s robust growth and strategic consolidations. The Top Software M&A Transactions Announced so far in 2024 include: January 2024: Synopsys announced a $31.9

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

DECEMBER 19, 2023

19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- [Mason City, IA] – Metalcraft, a leader in the identification products industry, and A2B Tracking, a provider of software solutions for tracking and managing critical assets and inventory, announced today the successful acquisition of the A2B Tracking UID Labels and Plates division by Metalcraft.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

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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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

GAM heads, Mark Hawtin and Jeremy Roberts, are set to join Liontrust Asset Management in the coming months as head of global growth equities, and head of global distribution (ex UK), respectively. The deal, once completed, was set to create a global asset manager with £53 billion in assets under management and administration.

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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. As a result, LiquidityBook’s LBX suite has become a full-featured Portfolio, Order and Execution Management System (POEMS) with an embedded FIX network.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

He joined after most recently spending two and a half years at BlackRock’s flagship Aladdin platform, serving as a managing director and leading its business development efforts across EMEA. Greg Finke joined the boutique asset manager after just over a year at Rothschild & Co as a senior investment dealer covering equities.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

MAY 14, 2024

TORONTO, May 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Virtus Capital Corporation, the asset manager of Virtus Diversified REIT is proud to announce its latest strategic move in expanding its portfolio with the acquisition of a free-standing Walmart tenanted property located in Flin Flon, Manitoba. We originally tied up this property for $5.25

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Cürex, a New York City‐based foreign exchange execution services and data analytics business, has a portfolio which includes: a firm pricing spot FX central limit order book supporting bank algo platforms; a pre-trade and post‐trade analytics platform which real‐time data analysis; and a peer-to-peer matching pool.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

It’s a world which has a compelling backstory and a future which could veer off in several different directions depending on a range of scenarios which includes growing demand from larger buy-side organisations, M&A activity and an increasing level of investment needed to stay competitive. Will we see more M&A?

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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 Deal

JULY 18, 2023

For much of 2023 private credit has kept its doors open for M&A. But the asset class has also carried over its caution from the second half of last year amid economic uncertainty and a tighter fundraising environment. “They know they have the advantage.” times, according to data from Configure.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The catalysts could be anything from quarterly earnings announcements to covenant breaches to announcements of M&A deals, financings, or strategic reviews. As discussed in the distressed private equity article, there is no universal definition for a “distressed security” or a “distressed company.”

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 24, 2023

Event-Driven Hedge Funds Definition: Event-driven hedge funds bet on specific corporate actions, such as M&A deals, divestitures, spin-offs, bankruptcies, and business reorganizations, and they profit based on changes in the value of a company’s debt or equity after the action.

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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. A novel concept to greener traders. The changing face of it every day. I still love it. It is a different job every day.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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. It’s no longer all or nothing.

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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 There are no prescribed measures for any particular asset class at any given time. You had the gilt crisis.

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2023

The LPA will remain in effect until either all assets covered by the guarantee are realised, or until terminated by UBS the businesses confirmed in a statement today. The Swiss government has signed a Loss Protection Agreement (LPA) with UBS, which is set to come into effect following the completion of its acquisition of Credit Suisse.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. At the helm of the team is global head of trading Cathy Gibson who oversees trading across the asset manager’s offices in London, the US, Asia Pacific and South Africa. Markets have been tricky.

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

It’s about risk management philosophy and methodology,” explains Papanichola. During that period of my training, I was actively taking positions, taking risk, fundamentally managing a portfolio of sorts in macro products.” Interesting, lucrative, fun but highly unconventional,” he says.

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Software Equity Group

AUGUST 20, 2024

Top Strategic Buyers Investing in SaaS Valsoft Corporation Valsoft is a holding company for a diverse portfolio of software and related technology services and currently employs 2,000 employees. The software landscape is dynamic, and strategic buyers are continuously seeking new and innovative ways to gain a competitive edge.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 10, 2024

Wealth managers say that investment banking requires crazy hours, has mostly dull work, and is ridiculously competitive to get into; also, the “compensation ceiling” may be similar in both fields, so why kill yourself in banking? Note that the scope is more limited in “pure” WM roles; you’ll do more non-portfolio work in private banking.)

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Kepler Cheuvreux and Unigestion have announced a strategic partnership which will see the firms launch a joint public equities asset management company. The post Kepler Cheuvreux and Unigestion unveil joint 3 billion asset management plans appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

APRIL 11, 2025

” Liao brings 15 years of macroeconomic research, trading and portfolio management experience to the new role, and before joining Cboe, she worked as a portfolio manager at CQS Asset Management. I’m thrilled to welcome her to the team.”

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The TRADE

APRIL 22, 2025

Clearwater Analytics has completed its acquisition of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions provider for the investment management and hedge fund sectors, Enfusion. billion, is set to provide the first single-instance, multi-tenant, cloud-native front-to-back platform for the entire investment management industry.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 13, 2025

Clearwater Analytics is set to acquire Enfusion a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions provider for the hedge fund and investment management industry for $1.5 This deal is understood to be a key step toward Clearwaters plan of building the first cloud-native front-to-back platform for the entire investment management industry.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 29, 2025

Speaking to The TRADE about his career in asset management thus far and how his experiences shape the way he leads the team, Middleton shares that his path so far has not been conventional and that that, of course, is a good thing. As a person of colour coming into asset management, I didn’t take the most conventional path.

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 29, 2024

M&A Activity and What it Means for FSM SaaS CEOs As FSM SaaS companies grow, many Founders and CEOs find themselves at a crossroads: Should they continue scaling independently, raise additional capital, or explore a strategic exit through M&A?

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