MergersCorp M&A International

JUNE 25, 2025

M&A Sale of FINMA Asset Management Regulated Portfolio Management and Trustee Activities: Providing specialized advisory for firms engaged in portfolio management of financial instruments and regulated trustee services under the Financial Institutions Act (FinIA).

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2025

The post Virtu Financial partners with Limina to enhance buy-side workflows appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Almost two thirds (63%) of buy-side equity market participants believe outsourced desks would result in improved execution quality and trade performance when trading across regions, according to new research from Coalition Greenwich. This figure was up markedly from similar research in 2020, which had the result at 5%.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 24, 2024

In the dynamic realm of the financial markets, the introduction of technology has proven to be a catalyst for transformative change, overhauling existing trading strategies. Among the wide range of advancements, algorithmic trading has revolutionised how financial instruments are bought and sold.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 30, 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, The TRADE can reveal. Union is bolstering its digital assets division, The TRADE understands.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 12, 2024

StoneX Group has appointed former head of trading at Incline Global Management, Evan Halpern, as managing director of fixed income outsourced trading, The TRADE can reveal. Throughout his career, Halpern has held trading and portfolio management roles at a wide selection of firms.

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The TRADE

JULY 12, 2024

Rikki Corbyn has left State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following 11 and a half years with the firm, The TRADE has learnt. The TRADE’s Rising Stars initiative, recognising the budding buy-side talents of the institutional trading space, returns in October 2024, its tenth year.

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The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2025

Broadridge Financial Solutions’ bond trading platform LTX has launched a new capability – BondGPT Intelligence – which integrates generative AI capabilities directly into trading platform workflows. Read more: Broadridge’s new algo co-pilot: The first tangible use case of AI in trading?

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 27, 2025

Preferreds trade on exchanges like stocks, but also have par values and pay a stream of income. "For long-term investors, preferreds can provide high-quality, diverse, and durable portfolio income," Sileo wrote. Investors looking for broad market exposure can invest in exchange-traded funds. The Global X U.S.

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The TRADE

JUNE 12, 2025

The post Pimco vice president joins Payden & Rygel as fixed income trader appeared first on The TRADE. The move sees Sheridan leaving Pimco where he has served for the last five years, most recently as vice president from January 2024 to June 2025. Sheridan will be based out of Los Angeles in his new role.

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The TRADE

JULY 9, 2025

Specifically, the offering is expected to eliminate challenges of manual processes and data inconsistencies, and clients will also have access to functionalities including turnkey managed integration, enhanced OTC management, integrated cash management and consistent position and trade data exchanges. The firms have said that the new solution meets (..)

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Over the past decade, technological advancements and increasing financial regulations have been the primary drivers behind the evolution of trading analytics and transaction cost analysis (TCA). These components are the backbone of the PGGM trading analytics desk. How can TCA use be further optimised/automated on the trading desk?

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A Citadel equity trader and senior associate has left the firm to join Ilex Capital, The TRADE can reveal. According to an update on his social media, Jack Boland has joined Ilex Capital in a US equity trading and global equity capital markets role. The post Citadel trader joins Ilex Capital appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 5, 2024

Jefferies’ managing director and head of US equity distribution in Europe, Guy Trust, has left the bank after nearly a decade to join Daiwa Capital Markets Europe, The TRADE can reveal. He began his career as a junior portfolio manager at RSA covering US equities.

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Wall Street Mojo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

What Is A Replicating Portfolio? A Replicating Portfolio refers to an investment portfolio built to copy the outcomes offered by a target asset. The purpose of building such a portfolio is to gain investment results similar to the results achieved by the target asset or the original instruments of the target portfolio.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Current head of equity trading and operational portfolio management, Robbert Wijgerse, continues in his role and existing reporting lines remain the same. Berendsen joined Robeco in 2006 as a data and application manager. During his tenure at Bank of America, Mudie most recently served as manging director, sales trading.

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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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Peak Frameworks

AUGUST 15, 2023

An investment portfolio is a basket of various types of financial assets owned by an investor. These assets can be in the form of equities (stocks), fixed income (bonds), mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), real estate, commodities , and more. It's a tool to manage and diversify risk while seeking returns.

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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

JUNE 7, 2024

How would you describe the dynamic of the trading desk [at State Street Global Advisors]? Our team works in close collaboration with portfolio managers, understanding portfolio construction and the underlying benchmark (e.g. What are the main topics the fixed income trading team are focused on? But who knows!

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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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The TRADE

AUGUST 1, 2024

Initially during her tenure at BNY Mellon, she served as an assistant portfolio manager, fixed income. Following this, Lambert was promoted to portfolio manager, fixed income for just over five years. The post Fidelity Investments taps MFS Investment Management for new senior trader appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

BTON Financial is a cloud-based, AI, and data-driven Software as a Service (SaaS) solution developed to aid buy-side trading desks with reducing costs while still increasing performance. The post FlexTrade and BTON Financial deliver AI-powered trading automation solution appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The newly introduced alternative data function, ALTD <GO>, supports equity analysts and portfolio managers with intra-quarter insights which can be incorporated into research workflows, paired with consensus estimates, company news, research and guidance – ahead of earnings announcements.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2024

Buy-side book-building platform Appital has moved to expand its pre-trade price discovery capabilities to allow for greater natural liquidity amongst its buy-side clients. This aligns with our strategy to deliver unique workflows to trading and investment teams. Liquidity is subsequently realised.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

What are the benefits of merging trading across asset classes? The key benefits of merging the trading function to be multi-asset have to come down to efficiency and scale, both as it relates to the execution of trades but also on how the trader operates when observing markets, providing market colour and looking at data.

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The TRADE

JUNE 2, 2023

Edouard Petitcollot Candriam has overhauled its global trading structure in a bid to refocus its attention on more complex and high touch trading strategies, The TRADE can reveal. Edouard Petitcollot will lead the operation as global head of trading. High touch trading can be renewed.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

State Street has expanded the capabilities of its Alpha platform to support the entire lifecycle for exchange traded funds (ETFs). Available to all participants on the platform, the enhancement provides connectivity and electronic communication through an industry protocol used in electronic trading.

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The TRADE

JUNE 28, 2023

Wavelabs has opened up its eLiSA execution management system (EMS) to non-users with modular versions of the system’s analytics products, The TRADE can reveal. A user can access the analytics either via API or through a small user interface which can be integrated with a trading environment.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2019, Nutting was nominated by her industry peers as one of The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution, and just four years later, she was shortlisted for The TRADE’s coveted Buy-side Trader of the Year Award. That same year, she was recognised by The TRADE and the industry as a Rising Star of Trading and Execution.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched the first actively managed corporate and municipal target maturity bond ETFs in the US market. The suite consists of 14 actively managed target maturity ETFs with various maturity years ranging from 2026 to 2034. The suite is made up of both corporate bond and municipal bond ETFs.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Christoph Hock, head of multi-asset trading at Union Investment, accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading 2023 gala awards ceremony last night. The TRADE would like to extend its congratulations to Hock for his long-standing commitment and service to the industry.

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