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Kepler’s Ellipsis AM set to acquire Rothschild AM convertible bond business

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As part of the deal two Rothschild portfolio managers – Cristina Jarrin and Mikael Dauvert – will move to Ellipsis AM. Ellipsis AM’s convertible team currently comprises of four portfolio managers, with each one performing the role of trader alongside acting as portfolio manager.

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Algorithmic trading: Smarter than ever?

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The longer I take, the more opportunity/risk I’m exposed to. Various techniques exist to help combat the issue, including splitting larger parent orders into smaller child orders to disguise the full intent of a trade, to both the market and a single broker. Simplification and automation have been key focus areas on the buy-side.

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LiquidityBook acquires Messer to boost multi-asset capabilities

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As part of the acquisition, Bryan Messer has been appointed general manager of Asia Pacific, managing director of portfolio management solutions and artificial intelligence at LiquidityBook, with his staff also joining.

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Chasing innovation on Robeco’s global equity trading desk: ‘In order to stay good, we need to become better’

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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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An evolving service provider landscape

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It’s a world which has a compelling backstory and a future which could veer off in several different directions depending on a range of scenarios which includes growing demand from larger buy-side organisations, M&A activity and an increasing level of investment needed to stay competitive. Will we see more M&A?

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

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UK-based boutique fixed income trading desk BlueBay Asset Management is beginning a new chapter in its life. For head of trading for the RBC BlueBay Asset Management London-based fixed income trading desk, Stuart Campbell, the institution’s combined size is a new strength. You’re taught to almost think like a PM.

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DWS Group’s Werner Eppacher: ‘Liquidity is like a shy deer’

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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 I’m not involved in day-to-day trading anymore,” he says. “I’m You had the gilt crisis.

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