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Keeping an aircraft carrier nimble in times of turbulence

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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. Getting the data is one thing, analysing the data and turning it into useful information is a whole other ball game.

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How to raise pre-seed funding

Growth Business

Pre-seed funding is there to build the foundations of your business before you move on to your subsequent funding rounds. It can give you a boost to develop early-stage versions of your product and/or build your team, as well as giving you some steer with the strategy in your firm’s infancy. “I What can I use the funding for?

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Trading at the frontier

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The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. In nothing short of a baptism of fire, he took his first steps into trading in January 2007 in the build-up to the global financial crisis.

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Eyes on a new prize: How outsourced trading has taken off and why the attention is now turning to larger managers

The TRADE

Suddenly the longstanding narratives of ‘giving up control’, ‘loss of information’ and ‘replacing jobs’ have been replaced with the realisation for some fund managers that you can supplement your trading desk with an outsourced trading provider by turning to them for a particular geography, asset class or cover for holiday periods or busy times.

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In-house algorithmic execution platforms are the way forward

The TRADE

Storing order book updates received at millisecond intervals in a well-designed database enables high-level back testing. Moreover, algorithms help better understand the market, providing investment managers with valuable information to make more informed decisions.

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Liquidity, it’s a two-way street

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According BMLL Technologies data, bilateral trading accounted for 35% of overall notional traded as of November 2024, including request for quote (RFQ), off-book on-exchange, over the counter (OTC) and SI volumes both above and below the large in scale (LiS) threshold. This marks a 12% increase since January 2021.