PCE

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the complex world of modern finance, the importance of portfolio valuations cannot be overstated. These valuations are crucial for fund and investment managers, as transparency and consistency is important for individual investors, large institutions and other stakeholders.

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 19, 2023

Veteran portfolio manager Jim Casselberry is trying to do something about that. Economic freedom has been more elusive for Black people.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Head of Europe for UK-based asset manager Federated Hermes, James Rutherford, has stepped down from his role to pursue a technology venture, The TRADE can reveal. He departs following a 35-year long career in investment management, spending 19 years at Fidelity Investments as a European portfolio manager until 2006.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

JULY 26, 2023

July 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Multifamily owner-operator and investment manager Pacific Urban Investors has acquired The Residences at River’s Edge, a 222-unit apartment community in Medford, MA. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Peak Frameworks

JULY 20, 2023

At the heart of financial management and investing lies a crucial question: " How can we maximize returns while minimizing risk?" This question paved the way for the birth of the Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) , introduced by economist Harry Markowitz in the 1950s.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 25, 2023

BNY Mellon has launched a new foreign exchange (FX) platform, meeting client demands to manage execution across their entire portfolio and access improved price transparency. BNY Mellon stated that the new platform will also help clients navigate the industry transition to T+1 settlement.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

. “In today’s complex and fast-paced investment landscape, real-time performance attribution can provide transparency and clarity regarding the drivers of financial returns, particularly in portfolio construction and active risk management,” said Lars Ole Hansen, global product manager at SimCorp.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

JP Morgan subsidiary Neovest has moved to expand its capabilities in the hedge fund sphere with the acquisition of investment management platform LayerOne Financial. Users will be able to send orders to their brokers, manage positions, monitor portfolios, and conduct risk assessments and compliance checks from a unified platform.

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PE Hub

MAY 24, 2023

In her new role, Butler will oversee investment management for the fund as it continues to scale its portfolio of private real estate equity and credit investments. The post KKR Real Estate Trust taps Butler as chief investment officer appeared first on PE Hub.

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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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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 18, 2023

announced this morning its acquisition of Boxed.com and “other intellectual property portfolios and affiliates” in an all-cash transaction. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April, online wholesale retailer Boxed has been acquired. based regional distributor MSG Distributors, Inc.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Read more: Fireside Friday with… Morgan Stanley’s Maria Salamanca Mejia Previously in his career, McMahon worked as a centralised dealer at Bank of Ireland Asset Management, working on the multi-asset global trading desk.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT). He originally joined the asset manager as an investment operations analyst in 2020. Prior to his 17-year stint at TORA, Jenkins was managing director at Caspian, now LSEG Data and Analytics.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

Head of Europe for UK-based asset manager Federated Hermes, James Rutherford, has stepped down from his role to pursue a technology venture. Rutherford departs the investment management industry after 35 years to take on a more active role in SmartFrame Technologies, a venture which he has been chairman of for six years.

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The TRADE

MAY 30, 2023

TS Imagine has expanded its team in the Asia Pacific with two new appointments from investment management fintech Enfusion. Stephanie Cheung has been appointed sales director, while An Hoong will work within the account management team, responsible for technical account management and client support.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Players are also investing in a range of solutions, like data lakes, to generate new data-driven insights that are relevant to the core business, such as using artificial intelligence (AI) to manage foreign exchange based on macroeconomic data and country sentiment intelligence. A strong push to refocus on investment management.

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The TRADE

JUNE 29, 2023

International investors are seeking high yielding strategies, along with diversifiers for their portfolios which are increasingly centred on global thematic solutions that take advantage of structural trends.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The traditional RPA approach used by large financial services players usually doesn’t easily work in institutional investing. This is mostly because a large share of the total spend is related to front-office costs that RPA does not address, such as staff compensation, investment management fees and deal costs.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The immediate focus for the business is set to be investing in client service and portfolio management, specifically hiring in senior sales and distribution team members focused on Europe and the UK, as well as investment managers for both the luxury brands and credit opportunities strategies.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

As part of the new system-wide exploratory scenario (SWES) exercise, participants including major banks, hedge funds, asset managers and pension funds will be asked to evaluate the impact of “severe but plausible” stress including what actions they might individually take in that scenario, with a focus on the UK markets.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

Prior to that, he spent six and a half years at State Street Global Markets in a portfolio solutions role. Previously, Williams served as an investment account manager at Northern Trust. M&G’s global asset management arm appointed Manabu Fujita as head of M&A Investments Japan.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

RBC appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales. 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

AUGUST 15, 2023

Trading, portfolio and risk management solutions provider TS Imagine has added CLSA’s AI-powered European algo suite to its list of certified brokers. TS Imagine’s TradeSmart features pre-certified connections to more than 250 listed brokers and venues, as well as broker algos.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, the board of  GAM Holding subsequently declared Liontrust Asset Management’s offer for the business unsuccessful and in August, an agreement was instead made with Rock Investment SAS and Newgame to finance the business’ liquidity needs.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Industry Person of the Year 2023 shortlist: Seema Arora, managing director, head of execution sales, Instinet Europe Champion of The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution award scheme, Instinet Europe’s Seema Arora needs little introduction with an extensive financial career spanning more than 25 years.

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Growth Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The fund does state that it will invest €0.25m to €15m over a company’s lifetime. Force Over Mass Force Over Mass has invested in over 175 tech companies at seed and growth stage. Notion Capital VC firm focused on European SaaS and cloud with more than $700m assets under management and more than Series A 100 investments to date.

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Peak Frameworks

AUGUST 24, 2023

Robo-advisors are automated platforms that provide investment management services with minimal human intervention, such as Betterment. Moreover, they offer a range of financial products and services, allowing investors to diversify their portfolios effectively. Discount brokerages offer fewer services but at a lower cost.

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The TRADE

MARCH 25, 2024

Tim Helyar Dennis Baillon, director of business development for APAC at Charles River, asserted: “To be successful in today’s market, managers need a platform that provides flexibility in their operating environment and enables them to scale as their business requires.”

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

After leaving university, she undertook several sell-side internships at RBC, Nomura and Fisher Investments, returning to RBC in 2014 to work on its cash management team for its foreign exchange traders. In 2016, Nutting moved to Principia Investment Management Limited where she was an execution trader and fund manager assistant.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We’re seeing a significantly increased use of bond portfolio trading and fixed income ETFs, where sophisticated pricing tools are not only enabling us to trade these products with greater frequency, but are the differentiator. Portfolio trading has been especially impactful for credit markets where liquidity can be challenging.

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Growth Business

AUGUST 3, 2023

I would always encourage a founder to come out of their comfort zone, and even pitch to investors before they’re ready,” said Adam Beveridge, investment manager at SFC Capital. It’s also crucial to do research on the investors themselves: what they invest in, their portfolio and their recent investments.

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The TRADE

MARCH 27, 2024

Traders can use request for quote or request for market protocols and can upload Ibor portfolios into Tradeweb’s list trading mechanism for conversion into risk free rates. Tradeweb subsequently rolled out trading protocols for clients to engage with the Sofr alternative benchmark for US dollar derivatives and €STR for euro derivatives.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’ve always worked in the asset management industry, starting my first job at 18 with Scottish Amicable Investment Management in Glasgow. What has your journey to the trading desk been like? I joined the banking services team and within that team sat the Treasury function consisting of a money market and FX trader.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

Strategic innovation Strategic acquirers are feeling more pressure to consummate bolt-on acquisitions in order to round out their portfolios, enter new markets and fill innovation gaps. Others have pursued less-traditional acquisitions, choosing to instead form alliances and partnerships. billion.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The trader of today has to be able to distil a vast amount of disparate information and filter it in a bespoke fashion to the needs of individual portfolio management teams. Key among them being the provision of market colour and adding to the idea generation process.

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The Deal

JULY 18, 2023

“While a select few lenders have maintained their hold size parameters, the overwhelming majority of lenders have significantly reduced their check size in response to the drop off in redemptions and repayments in their portfolios,” said Joseph Weissglass , managing director at middle market investment bank Configure Partners LLC.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

The banking giant hired Ian Power from Newton Investment Management a year ago, alongside Paul Christophorou, who previously spent 19 years as a senior global trader for Odey Asset Management and Gozde Yildiz, a multi-asset trader focusing on fixed income, equities and derivatives trading. The list goes on.

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