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Around two-thirds of buy-siders believe outsourced desks could enhance trade performance in cross-border trading

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Read more – The Outsourced Trading Handbook 2023 Coalition Greenwich shared the response of one portfolio manager, which highlighted how outsourced providers “act as an extension to the trading desk and understand [our] trading goals,” while another commented on the importance of “added expertise that [we] do not have in-house.”

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The prime brokerage pie is growing, which means bigger slices for everyone

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Dominic Rieb-Smith, managing director, international head, prime services sales, JP Morgan, refers to the past year as “a standout”. Data from Convergence tracking the top 25 prime brokers showed their market share grew from 83.3% in April 2023, to 92% in 2024.

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FCA guidance on post-Brexit trading venue definition comes into force today

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According to the UK regulator, the policy statement is most relevant to trading venues, service companies, interdealer brokers, broker dealers, portfolio managers, technology firms serving trading institutions, and investment-based crowdfunding firms operating in primary and/or secondary markets.

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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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“In the end, the efficiency that we hoped to reach with having one desk was not realised and therefore we said we want to focus on one specific asset class with dedicated equity traders, fixed income traders and FX traders,” says head of equity trading and operational portfolio management at Robeco, Robbert Wijgerse. “We

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Buy-side trading head recommends cautious approach to emerging markets despite strong investor interest

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Specifically, Collery highlighted the important role of portfolio managers and a proactive approach to forging those key relationships.

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Outsourced trading: Easy to do, difficult to get right

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The reality is many are not prepared to make the significant investments required to maintain or grow their share of the market.” The important impact of changing market sentiment Demonstrably, things are ramping up and outsourced trading providers are highly cognisant of the importance of keeping up with the pack in this high-stakes game. “If

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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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