The TRADE

JANUARY 10, 2024

Impax Asset Management has entered into an agreement to acquire the corporate credit assets from fixed income manager Absalon Corporate Credit, part of Formuepleje Group. The post Impax Asset Management to acquire corporate credit business from partner firm Formuepleje Group appeared first on The TRADE.

Asset Management

The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

Before joining MEAG, Malakis held senior sales positions with international asset managers, including Generali Insurance, Vanguard International and Schroders. Northern Trust Asset Management appointed Naoto Komoro to lead its asset management business in Japan.

Asset Management

Accenture Capital Markets

JUNE 18, 2024

Generative AI (gen AI) is predicted to impact over two-thirds of all functions across the capital markets industry, suggesting that the technology has the potential to significantly transform all its segments—including asset management. The majority of asset manager have already started on this journey.

Asset Management

The TRADE

AUGUST 29, 2023

Vahid joins AllianzGI from UBS Asset Management where he served in a variety of roles over the last 20 years. Prior to that, he served as a portfolio manager for European small and mid-caps as well as a European equities research analyst.

Asset Management

The TRADE

JUNE 27, 2023

“Our OEMS platform helps asset managers, hedge funds and other institutional investors manage positions and transact efficiently across markets,” said Kevin Samuel, chief executive of LiquidityBook. We are excited to work with ICE to expand this functionality within the ETF creation and redemption process.”

Portfolio Management

The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management, joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader. The post People Moves Monday: UBS, Titan Asset Management, IEX Group and more… appeared first on The TRADE.

Asset Management

The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

Bloomberg AIM and Bloomberg Vault have been adopted by India-based NJ Asset Management to help enable its enterprise-wide digital strategy across the entire investment workflow. According to the firms, Bloomberg AIM addresses NJ Asset Management’s specific needs for tools to support rule-based investment decision-making.

Asset Management

The TRADE

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As asset managers continue to look for ways to fully capitalise on data, a new SIX report has found that almost half view data velocity as the key challenge in enabling analytics to drive growth. These individuals work across financial institutions, asset managers, wealth managers, investment banks, and asset servicers.

Asset Management

The TRADE

APRIL 5, 2024

Kepler Cheuvreux subsidiary Ellipsis Asset Management has moved to expand its capabilities in the convertible bond segment with the acquisition of Rothschild & Co’s business. As part of the deal two Rothschild portfolio managers – Cristina Jarrin and Mikael Dauvert – will move to Ellipsis AM.

Asset Management

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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Global Banking & Finance

JULY 29, 2024

Frankfurt-based Chom Capital GmbH is an owner-operated asset management boutique, licenced to conduct financial services in the form of investment brokerage, investment advice, contract broking and financial portfolio management.

Capital

The TRADE

MAY 2, 2024

Appital Insights is now fully integrated with FactSet’s Portware execution management system (EMS), enabling the latter’s asset management clients to access Appital Insights liquidity easily within their EMS. They know that Appital Insights does not impact ‘on-screen’ prices and they retain full control of the order.”

Asset Management

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.

Investment

The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

“By optimising ETF workflows with consistent data, key analytics and more efficient basketing capabilities, asset managers are better equipped to drive investment decision making with access to near real-time data modernise their operating models as the ETF marketplace continues to grow.” Issuers using the Alpha platform can make use of portfolio (..)

Electronics

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. Groupama asset management has also been working with Wavelabs on its European fair value initiative. “It

Portfolio Management

The TRADE

AUGUST 8, 2024

German asset manager BayernInvest has adopted an integrated suite of Bloomberg solutions to support its front-to-back workflows. Bloomberg’s MARS Collateral Management offering will also provide BayernInvest increased connectivity across workflows, with fewer manual processes.

Asset Management

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.

Acquisitions

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.

Investment

The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management has joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader, according to an announcement on social media.

Trading

The TRADE

APRIL 10, 2024

According to Nasdaq, it will make it possible for investors to gain exposure in the Swedish small cap market and simplify investment strategies through consolidating a diversified portfolio of small cap stocks into a single instrument. In addition, the screening criteria allows investors to make decisions which are aligned with ESG outcomes.

Asset Management

The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT). He originally joined the asset manager as an investment operations analyst in 2020. He began his career as a junior portfolio manager at RSA covering US equities.

Asset Management

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).

Investment Manager

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.

Trading

The TRADE

JULY 8, 2024

Senior equity trader at Janus Henderson, Stuart Mair, left the asset manager after 14 years. Prior to his most recent role he spent six and a half years as a multi-asset trader. He originally joined the asset manager in 2010 as an RFP associate on the fixed income team.

Bank

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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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.

Bank

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.

Portfolio Management

The TRADE

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.

Broker

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.

Accountant

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. Nutting graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Geography in 2013. You started on the sell-side, what made you move over?

Trading

The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Traders and portfolio managers will also be able to access exposure to liquidity events in relevant equities meeting their minimum ADC or pricing thresholds. “They want full control on every stage of the order lifecycle.

Electronics

The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

During his time with the asset manager, Taitz was responsible for Invesco’s fixed income trading desks in the US, UK and Hong Kong. Head of Europe for UK-based asset manager Federated Hermes, James Rutherford, has stepped down from his role to pursue a technology venture.

Asset Management

The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

“Having traded variance since 2002, being able to trade a simple cleared variance product will be a very welcome addition to our portfolio,” said Keith DeCarlucci, chief investment officer at Melqart Asset Management. .

S&P

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.  

Portfolio Management

The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2023

Through the IDN software and Investortool’s straight-through-processing, asset managers have direct click-to-bid and click-to-trade access to liquidity. He added: “[it] gives our clients the ability to measure SMA portfolio construction in days instead of months while adding alpha through an STP user experience.”

Electronics

Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The multi-manager hedge fund model is simple: Raise $10-20 billion, borrow at the fund level to take this to $50-$100 billion, and then allocate this capital to dozens of internal teams. By contrast, at a single-manager fund, you’d probably get a more open-ended task, such as one week to find, research, and pitch your own idea.

Funds

The TRADE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Read more – Union Investment’s trading head Hock steps away from role to pursue digital asset aspirations Hock has been with Union Investment since 2014 and has been instrumental in the development of the firm’s trading strategy and structure.

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