The TRADE

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has selected the Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Global Network to offer direct market access to global institutional investors. The network’s managed services provide customers with end-to-end hosting, hardware procurement, connectivity and support through a single ICE Global Network solution. “Our

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2024

UK asset manager Gravis Capital Management has become the latest to integrate Bloomberg AIM in a bid to enhance its front-office workflows. The asset manager already uses Bloomberg’s portfolio and risk analytics solution, Bloomberg PORT and through the addition of AIM, it now has front-to-back workflow.

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The TRADE

JUNE 6, 2023

The application incorporates real-time liquidity information from LTX Liquidity Cloud to simplify workflows and increase efficiency for users’ bond selection and portfolio construction processes, which LTX stated will benefit asset managers hedge funds and dealers.

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The TRADE

JULY 2, 2024

She has also previously worked at Macquarie Group, ETF securities and AECOM. Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s global head of ETF product, Ryan O’Connor, departed for Global X ETFs.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This has forced prime brokers to focus more on risk management and diversification of their client portfolios with increased regulatory pressures.” The market volatility has certainly been a defining feature of the year, for both clients and providers, and gave rise to opportunities for certain strategies, while costing others dearly. “In

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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.

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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 19, 2023

Previously in his career, he spent several years in credit trading roles at StormHarbour Securities, UBS and Elgin Capital. 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.

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The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

Griffin originally joined Kepler in 2016 as its head of portfolio and electronic sales trading, later assuming his most recent role as head of market structure and liquidity solutions in 2022. For nearly five years, Wilkes served as the head of buy-side solutions sales and head of securities services sales in the EMEA region.

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The TRADE

MAY 15, 2024

Read more: Fireside Friday with… BNY Mellon’s Geoffrey Yu BNY Mellon’s execution offering provides clients with access to a liquidity pool which leverages the firm’s client footprint consisting of asset managers, asset owners, alternatives, banks, broker dealers and wealth clients.

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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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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Multi-manager hedge funds promise investors solid risk-adjusted returns with low volatility; no matter what the broader market does, you’ll make money if you invest in them. Beta-Neutral Portfolios: For example, if the S&P 500 goes up or down by 5%, your team’s portfolio should move by ~0%.

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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

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

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. Fixed income is unique in comparison with equities as you’ve got all these individual securities for one issuer.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 19, 2023

And if you are interested in this strategy, should you even target hedge funds, or would a long-only asset management firm be better? Non-Equity Funds – Finally, it is difficult to “short” certain securities effectively, such as distressed debt and many types of credit (especially structured products ).

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Institutional investors and pension plans are increasingly looking to double down on core activities, such as security selection, and leverage an ecosystem of managed services providers to deliver on critical non-core activities like cyber-security, financial planning and analysis, and technology infrastructure. Blockchain.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Industry Person of the Year 2023 shortlist: Seema Arora, managing director, head of execution sales, Instinet Europe Champion of The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution award scheme, Instinet Europe’s Seema Arora needs little introduction with an extensive financial career spanning more than 25 years.

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Razorpay

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Comprehensive Wealth Management Private banking integrates multiple financial services under one umbrella, offering a holistic approach to managing wealth. Retirement planning to secure their financial future. This consolidated approach simplifies financial management and helps clients achieve their long-term objectives.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 18, 2023

RBC BlueBay Asset Management The market is already pricing in rate cuts in Q1 although I, along with many others, don’t believe they will begin before the end of H1. Investors will need to think far more about the risk profiles of their portfolios. Phil Steel, senior trader, convertible bonds.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As discussed in the distressed private equity article, there is no universal definition for a “distressed security” or a “distressed company.” The company has only $100 million of Cash and $150 million of Revolver availability, so it cannot repay the upcoming Secured Debt maturity. This one is more common for distressed PE firms.

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2023

As reported earlier this week, UBS Group’s takeover of Credit Suisse Group is expected to close as early as next Monday 12 June, dependent on registration statement (share approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission) and other closing conditions. Credit Suisse shareholders are set to receive one UBS share for every 22.48

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The TRADE

JUNE 21, 2024

Additionally, Gensler emphasised the importance of same-day or T+0 allocations, confirmations, and affirmations, which are critical for the movement of securities and cash on T+1. European asset managers moved staff to the US to manage foreign currency risks during the US 4PM to 6PM time zone rather than late at night in Europe.”

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A few years ago, if you said you were putting everyone’s data in the cloud, there were concerns about how to secure that. 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.

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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 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.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

David Berney and Michael Broadbent run Ergo Consultancy which delivers what it refers to as provider “beauty parades” for buy-side organisations looking to outsource their trading, whereby it presents all the services in the industry to that asset manager, hedge fund or asset owner. The list goes on. The list goes on.

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The Deal

JULY 18, 2023

“While a select few lenders have maintained their hold size parameters, the overwhelming majority of lenders have significantly reduced their check size in response to the drop off in redemptions and repayments in their portfolios,” said Joseph Weissglass , managing director at middle market investment bank Configure Partners LLC.

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Solganick & Co.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Thoma Bravo has been an active acquirer of cybersecurity companies in recent years with a portfolio that currently includes Proofpoint, Sophos and SailPoint, in addition to holding stakes in a number of other security vendors. June 2024: TPG and CDPQ acquires Aareon for $4.2 billion.

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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 With the Russian invasion there was a lot of attention to the OTC derivative side of our business. You had the gilt crisis.

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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. The firm uses passive and active strategies, often deviating from its reference portfolio based on the macro environment.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

Traders, and portfolio managers, across the industry are seemingly eager to be part of these conversations – not just about the dawn of outsourcing but also when it comes to technological change across the market. “We Examples just from just the last six months include UK-based investment management firm Waverton – which has £9.1

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The TRADE

JULY 30, 2024

“What’s particularly notable is the willingness of big asset managers to launch their latest active strategies in an ETF wrapper. And for me that means that every asset manager is going to need to have a clear strategy of how they’re going to respond.”

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Subject to regulatory approvals, the service will come through its Amsterdam-based clearing house and introduce matching, CCP clearing, settlement and post-trade lifecycle management for SFT transactions in European cash equities and ETFs, and settlement will take place in 19 European Central Securities Depositories (CSDs).

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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.” Both [Cardello and Byrd] were incredibly patient with me.

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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. Splunk’s software enables business intelligence, predictive analytics, monitoring, and management of applications, IT operations, and security.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Additionally, we remain vigilant in working with emerging talent early and providing them differentiated resources across consulting capital introductions, talent management, technology and client service to help these new entrants launch their businesses successfully.” This is an ongoing pattern that we suspect will continue for some time.”

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