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Trader of the Year Hedge Fund: Conversant Capital’s David Alfred

The TRADE

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. There’s been a reopening in capital markets. It’s been busy. What has your journey to the trading desk been like?

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Fixed Income Research: The Overlooked Younger Brother of Equity Research?

Mergers and Inquisitions

While everyone seems to know about equity research and trading stocks, fixed income research gets far less attention. And the credit rating agencies (S&P, Fitch, Moody’s, and Morningstar DBRS in distant 4 th place) specialize in fixed income research. a credit rating vs. an investment recommendation).

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The 20 greatest trading innovations

The TRADE

The idea that in order to understand the changing price of an individual stock or security, one would have to study daily directories and newspapers is something that many of those starting out in the industry today will never understand. They can simply track an index or they can be made up of a custom basket of stocks.

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Cooley’s 2023 Tech M&A Year in Review: An AI-Generated Glass Half Full

Cooley M&A

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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