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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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.

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

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

JP Morgan subsidiary Neovest has moved to expand its capabilities in the hedge fund sphere with the acquisition of investment management platform LayerOne Financial. The deal is intended to allow the multi-asset and broker neutral order and execution management platform to offer integrated execution, order and portfolio management services.

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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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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

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.

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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

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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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

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 (..)

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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

JULY 24, 2023

Head of Europe for UK-based asset manager Federated Hermes, James Rutherford, has stepped down from his role to pursue a technology venture, The TRADE can reveal. He departs following a 35-year long career in investment management, spending 19 years at Fidelity Investments as a European portfolio manager until 2006.

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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.”

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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.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

MARCH 26, 2024

Ultimately, we (asset managers) should absolutely continue to encourage more competition in the space as it will drive efficiencies and technology improvements that benefit our end clients.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Anna Nordstrom, head of the domestic and international markets functions in the markets group at Deferral Reserve Bank of New York, shared that the current reach of the FX global code extended to 1300 entities – including the top 15 asset managers globally.

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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

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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The TRADE

JUNE 2, 2023

The asset manager will now operate with two specialised trading groups, one dedicated to equities, consisting of a team of three traders and headed up by Fabien Orève, and one dedicated to fixed income, consisting of four traders and headed up by Amaury Van Ruymbeke.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 31, 2024

Depending on your personality, skill set, and long-term goals, these single-manager funds or “hybrid funds” could be perfect or far from ideal: What Are Single-Manager Hedge Funds? The Top Single-Manager Hedge Funds Single-manager funds far outnumber multi-manager funds, but they’re also much smaller.

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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, Kirk is set to oversee and enhance Tourmaline’s services in support of asset managers globally as part of his new role.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We need good, consistent data sets in order to build logic to automate and make informed decisions,” said Martin Hendry, deputy head of trading at Liontrust Asset Management. Data – as has been discussed in various panels at the conference – was noted as being crucial for this evolution. “We

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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 Can you imagine an asset manager increasing the management fee for an ETF?

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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

MAY 1, 2024

Core values After two years at RBC, Papanichola landed himself his first hedge fund role at Elliot Management Corporation as a multi-product manager and arbitrage portfolio manager mentored by Jon Pollock, Jean Luc Harnay, and Phil Streeton. As Elliot has gotten bigger, those jobs have become much more pigeonholed.

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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

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

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.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 5, 2023

Some SWFs operate like long-only asset managers (i.e., mutual funds ) that allocate their assets top-down and then pick specific indices, companies, and securities that meet their criteria. and supporting your Portfolio Manager ’s ideas and requests.

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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.

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

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