The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

I spent the first 20 years of my career at the global bulge bracket banks, first in investment banking and then on the institutional equity desks, in a cross-asset and special situations role. Mike was building an investment team and process focused on idea generation and creative structuring. It’s been busy.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Markets are constantly challenging and that’s the key aspect to our role.” The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. Markets have been tricky.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Fixed Income Research Definition: In fixed income research, finance professionals analyze companies’ debt issuances and make pricing and investment recommendations based on their outlook for each one. And the credit rating agencies (S&P, Fitch, Moody’s, and Morningstar DBRS in distant 4 th place) specialize in fixed income research.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This partially explains why sports investment banking has become a hot field, with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs launching their own sports coverage groups. We’ll do a full breakdown of the sector here, but as usual, we need to start with the definitions, trends, and drivers: Table Of Contents What is Sports Investment Banking?

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The Deal

AUGUST 15, 2023

’s Competition and Markets Authority continued review of its Activision Blizzard Inc. “Sony is probably the most likely company to go looking for a big publisher,” Neil Barbour of S&P Global Inc. ‘s (SPGI) Kagan said in an email. Bulge-bracket deal expectations may also be a factor.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It was originally cooked up in the early 90s by Robert Lamoureux and Chris Morstatt in order to exchange equity information between their respective firms Fidelity Investments and Salomon Brothers. Usually hosted by bulge bracket banks, SIs are an internalising mechanism that allow banks to execute flow over the counter or off exchange.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

2023’s much-discussed downturn in mergers & acquisitions – with global M&A volume and value down 6% and 17%, respectively, from 2022 – was largely driven by the slowdown in the tech sector, with global tech M&A volumes down 51% year over year, while other sectors saw marked increases. [1] in 2022 to 5.9x

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