NNIP sees three areas of opportunity under moderate rate rise
By Flora McFarlane.
With the Fed expected to announce a third interest rate hike in December, and European counterparts likely to follow suit, investors have...
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...
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...
Buy side finds trading on the turn no less challenging
When everyone was selling and no-one was buying liquidity vanished. However, as bond market outflows lessen, and in some cases reverse, many buy-side traders...
BNP Paribas Asset Management names new head of global trading
BNP Paribas Asset Management has appointed Sophie Lugiez as head of the Global Trading Function (GTF). Based in Paris, Lugiez reports to Rob Gambi,...
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...
Study finds 21% of buy-side lost access to tradable instruments in crisis
A new ‘Derivatives Insight Report’ by analyst firm Acuiti has found that 21% of buy-side firms, including proprietary trading firms and asset managers, suffered...
OpenDoor launches all-to-all platform in US Treasury market
OpenDoor Securities has launched a trading platform focussed on the less liquid segments of the US Treasury bond market. Nearly three dozen firms representing...
