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Appital adds pre-trade price discovery capability to boost natural buy-side liquidity

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Buy-side book-building platform Appital has moved to expand its pre-trade price discovery capabilities to allow for greater natural liquidity amongst its buy-side clients. Traders and portfolio managers can also access exposure to liquidity events in relevant equities meeting their minimum ADC or pricing thresholds.

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A new chapter for RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s London-based fixed income trading desk

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While traders don’t have the authority to load up trades, outside of execution they are expected to collaborate with their portfolio managers to bring value add to the investment process by making suggestions around idea generation and execution. The trading team work closely in tandem with portfolio managers when preparing a strategy.

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SSGA’s Sharon Ruffles on fixed income trading: It’s a different job every day

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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. The best I had to go by would be maybe where I last traded a bond and then potentially some information on Bloomberg.

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Keeping an aircraft carrier nimble in times of turbulence

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Raymond joined LGIM as its head of credit trading in 2019 when the asset manager was undergoing the process of splitting up its portfolio management and trading capabilities. 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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DWS Group’s Werner Eppacher: ‘Liquidity is like a shy deer’

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He joined DWS Group a year later as a portfolio manager and worked his way up through the ranks, going on to lead teams of PMs focused on a range of instruments that stretched across asset classes. But Eppacher began to notice a distance between himself and the day-to-day action of what was happening in the markets.

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Trading at the frontier

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If a portfolio manager wants to execute a trade days after such an event, they need to understand that liquidity may be reduced, and they must be confident in their strategy if they’re willing to pay more in the bid-offer spread.” This context is crucial for our day-to-day operations.

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The evolving role of transaction cost analysis in equity futures trading

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Within equity futures, there is a centralised exchange, deep order books and excellent liquidity in most contracts. What should be front of mind for firms when it comes to building effective, workable equity futures TCA capabilities? As a result, being able to access this data via an O/EMS allows for a more detailed analysis.