The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Elijah Ibrahim Diallo has joined Magellan Capital as a multi-strategy trader, based in the UAE. He most recently served as an investment manager at ADQ and before that spent two and a half years as a senior trader and portfolio manager at Azimut.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

BlueCrest Capital Management’s new company, FX trading technology platform BlueX, has appointed Graham MacGregor as chief executive officer. Elsewhere in his career, MacGregor was EMEA head of sales and relationship management and chief executive, FX MTF business at Refinitiv.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Order and execution management platform, Adroit Trading Technologies, has raised $15 million in its series A funding round led by specialised growth equity firm, Centana Growth Partners, with the capital set to be used to accelerate the business’ growth. It services the likes of Invesco.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 5, 2024

Jamie McKenna was appointed vice president, senior global equity trader at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following almost two decades at GMO trading. Boston-based McKenna joined GMO in 2004 as a pricing analyst, and most recently worked in a multi-asset trading role for 15 years.

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The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management has joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader, according to an announcement on social media. Livingstone has previously served as head of trading – FX and ETFs at Tavistock Investments.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Macquarie Group has appointed Dylan Kluth head of equites trading for Asia Pacific, The TRADE can reveal. Kluth has been promoted to the role after serving as portfolio manager/analyst at the firm over the last two years.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

UK-based boutique fixed income trading desk BlueBay Asset Management is beginning a new chapter in its life. The move has opened up swathes of synergy opportunities for the pure fixed income asset manager, with its traders now working directly alongside RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s equities desk.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, as revealed by The TRADE. While at Credit Suisse, Polera most recently served as director of equity sales trading.

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 10, 2025

We hold the iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) in two of our growth-focused portfolios at Inside Edge. bond yields are steady, paving the way for risk-associated assets (I believe bitcoin is still positively correlated to the growth trade) to move higher. dollar, also a positive for the growth trade. The "capped" U.S.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) equity and derivatives trader Rikki Corbyn joined Barclays in a program trading role. He joins Barclays after almost 12 years with SSGA, originally joining the firm in 2013 in a trade support role before moving into an equity and derivatives trading role in 2016.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 15, 2024

Zakria Hussain has left Crédit Agricole, where he most recently served as global head of eFX spot trading, to join Nomura Group’s digital assets subsidiary Laser Digital as head of OTC trading. Liquidnet appointed Lara Jacobs as head of international client trading EMEA.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Earlier in his career, Viverito spent three years as a trader at Great Point Capital. Rothschild & Co senior investment dealer, Greg Finke, has left the firm for a new opportunity at Polar Capital. Polar Capital confirmed his appointment. He also previously spent 16 years at Instinet as a vice president in sales trading.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

Outsourced trading, though undoubtedly a contentious topic, is something that has been around in capital markets for decades in some form or another. However, an undeniable surge has occurred across the trading sphere over the last few years, with decidedly mixed results. And the number is climbing.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Ninety One’s trading team consists of 17 globally with six – soon to be seven – based in London.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

Smith brings more than 30 years’ experience in the capital markets sector to the role, having worked in various exchanges and regulators, alongside helping develop market and industry standards. He joins from ED&F Man Capital Markets, a company he founded.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The nine corporate bond ETFs aim to maximise current income while seeking preservation of capital, while the five municipal bond ETFs look to maximise current income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes while seeking preservation of capital. The suite is made up of both corporate bond and municipal bond ETFs.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Cboe Global Markets announced that its new Cboe S&P 500 Variance Futures are expected to begin trading on Monday 23 September on the Cboe Futures Exchange. Cboe Global Markets added that the contracts will quote and trade directly in variance units, offering a simplified approach to managing and trading variance exposure.

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 6, 2025

trillion has flowed into CLO and bank loan exchange-traded funds since the start of the year, following 2024's record $25.6 Himani Trivedi, head of structured credit at Nuveen, said demand for the products has been steady up and down the capital structure, and expects that to continue. "You're not taking outsized risk."

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The TRADE

AUGUST 5, 2024

He was previously head of international trading analytics and strategy at Vanguard, having joined in 2019. His new role will see Robert take charge of the firm’s market structure content and “provide key regulatory insights to assist clients in navigating the complexities of the equities trading ecosystem”.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

RBC has appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Before joining RBC, Chalkley spent 11 years at NatWest Markets.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry stalwart Dan Hinxman joined Bloomberg as head of European credit electronic trading following almost six years as managing director at TP ICAP. His experience also encompasses hedge fund related roles, including futures and options trading and work on a fixed income desk.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Following the height of Covid, we’ve had the memestock saga, the collapse of Archegos Capital and the war in Ukraine impacting the space in concurrent years as unprecedented events seem to have become the norm, driving market volatility in each of the post-pandemic years.

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The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

UBS selected one of its newly acquired Credit Suisse staff to replace its retiring global head of execution services, Brent Johnson, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. He began his trading career at UBS in Hong Kong. Livingstone previously served as head of trading – FX and ETFs at Tavistock Investments.

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

UBS appointed Carlos Salcedo head of capital markets financing sales Americas, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Northern Trust Asset Management appointed Naoto Komoro to lead its asset management business in Japan. as a fund manager for the passive and quantitative investment management department.

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Life on the Buy Side

APRIL 15, 2019

Six of Buffett’s friends and relatives put money into the fund while Buffett himself became the 7th partner after kicking in $100, bringing the grand total seed capital for the partnership to $105,100. At the age of 25, Buffett became the portfolio manager of his first fund.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

LiquidityBook is set to acquire boutique capital markets fintech provider, Messer Financial Software, in a bid to accelerate its multi-asset capabilities. With regard to our buy-side clients, and especially newer or smaller funds, time and again we hear their need to shadow their fund admins or manage their own books and records.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 8, 2024

Read more: Gravis Capital Management enhances front-office capabilities through Bloomberg AIM integration The adoption of this expanded set of Bloomberg solutions will allow BayernInvest to benefit from a fully integrated order management system offering across all key asset classes.

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The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2023

First, orders from various portfolio managers are staged and aggregated before being electronically routed to InvestorAccess. The benefit we are jointly providing to portfolio managers and traders will create greater efficiencies across asset classes as capital markets become increasingly electronic.”

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The TRADE

APRIL 25, 2024

When it comes to desk organisation, where derivatives fit in has been a key focal point for firms in recent times, with key buy-siders unpacked their approach to managing the evolving asset class on a TradeTech panel this week. Ultimately for T.Rowe, the firm had much the same reasons (as Allianz) to rethink and readjust their strategy.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

Invesco’s US-based global head of fixed income trading Glenn Taitz left the firm to join Adroit Trading Technologies. Taitz joined buy-side OEMS provider Adroit as its head of business operations after seven and a half years with Invesco helming its fixed income trading business. He was also at Merrill Lynch for eight years.

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The TRADE

JULY 15, 2024

Following the deal’s conclusion, Absalon’s portfolio managers are set to join Impax’s fixed income team and report to Impax head of fixed income, Ross Pamphilon. The post Impax AM completes acquisition of Absalon’s fixed income assets appeared first on The TRADE. The existing fixed income team is based in the US.

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Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

Portfolio Management Merchant banking companies provide portfolio management services to high -net-worth individuals and corporate investors. These services include a selection of securities, portfolio monitoring and review, advice on the rationalization of portfolios, and tax planning.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 6, 2023

They do this by setting up entire teams (“pods”) for specific sectors, having each team learn their stocks or other securities in-depth, and then trading frequently based on catalysts and changes in investor sentiment. Beta-Neutral Portfolios: For example, if the S&P 500 goes up or down by 5%, your team’s portfolio should move by ~0%.

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

But running through the Brighton born and bred Papanichola’s veins is an activist streak that has continued to influence his decisions and shape the course of his career to date, ultimately leading him to his current role as head of trading at London-based activist hedge fund, Bluebell Capital Partners.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The lack of regulated trading venues is materially hampering the growth of the crypto derivatives trading market,” said Jeremy Punnett, M&G portfolio manager. ” The post M&G Investments leads $30 million Series B funding round for GFO-X appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 10, 2023

FX clearing opportunities are expanding, interest rates have gone up, the market structure is evolving, and the cost of capital is rising—all tailwinds for FX clearing growth,” said Coalition Greenwich. The post FX clearing volumes on the up despite a lack of clearing mandates appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

Bloomberg AIM and Bloomberg Vault have been adopted by India-based NJ Asset Management to help enable its enterprise-wide digital strategy across the entire investment workflow. According to the firms, Bloomberg AIM addresses NJ Asset Management’s specific needs for tools to support rule-based investment decision-making.

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