Roundtable debate: Can the market electronify block trades?
The efficiency of electronic trading has trade-offs for blocks based on information disclosure, leakage and trust.
Electronifying execution of larger bond orders is the ‘holy...
European bond trading impacted by 84% of flows to active open-ended funds
European fixed income fund flows remain structurally different from the US, materially affecting trading flows during the day. In 2025, 84% of Europe’s US$422.7bn net inflows went to active open-ended funds. US flows...
Alaa Bushehri promoted at BNPP AM
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has appointed Alaa Bushehri as head of emerging markets debt. She reports to Olivier de Larouzière, chief investment...
BlackRock CEO backs blended active/passive bond portfolios
Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of investment giant BlackRock, has advocated the use of blended active and passive portfolios to optimise fixed income investments.
In...
Generali partners with Premialab for multi-asset investments
Generali Investment Partners has selected Premialab’s technology to support its portfolio management and risk functions in multi-asset investment.
“For over a century, Generali has remained...
Trivedi joins Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund, expanding asset allocation
Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund has seen the firm’s head of structured credit, Himani Trivedi, appointed to the firm’s portfolio management team.
Trivedi is...
Exclusive: Rathbone Unit Trust Management outsources trading to Northern Trust
Rathbones, the investment and wealth manager with US$60 billion (US$74 billion) assets under management (AUM) has confirmed its Rathbone Unit Trust Management team is...
Fitz Partners: Fund revenue margins drop 10% in 3 years, multi-asset offers hope
In the latest edition of its ‘Investment Advisory Fee Benchmarking Report’, fund research company Fitz Partners has looked at the different costs which make...
AXA IM: Credit downgrades increases concentration and liquidity risk in index investment
A decrease in the average credit quality of fixed income indices and intensifying competition for high quality assets present increasingly serious challenges for UK...
Lipper: Bond funds come roaring back (with Fed’s help)
Refinitiv Lipper has seen a bounce back for bond funds in Q2 2020 after they suffered losses of -4.3% and outflows of US$208.9 billion...
