Bloomberg veteran Miller joins TT; Dixey moves to Redburn Atlantic; Davies to Liontrust
Bloomberg veteran Gavin Miller has been appointed director of EMEA sales within Trading Technologies’ (TT) fixed income division.
Miller joins TT from BGC Partners where...
Insights & Analysis: Man Group quants qualify today’s economic regime
Amara Mulliner, a quant researcher at Man AHL and University of Cambridge economics graduate, and her colleagues have proposed a new way to qualify...
How asset managers capture micro-alpha opportunities
Setting up your desk correctly can help to boost returns for funds and clients.
When an opportunity arises for a fund to improve its returns,...
Pre-fight analysis: The weigh-in for CME vs FMX
The launch of FMX, the derivatives exchange chaired by Howard Lutnick, CEO of interdealer broker and services provider BGC Group, sets out a potentially...
Just 23% of buy-side firms confident in preparedness for MiFID II
By Flora McFarlane.
A new report by block-trading specialist Liquidnet says that MiFID II will drive automation in trading, but firms face many complexities and...
Hermes Investment Management chooses IHS Markit for TCA
By Flora McFarlane.
Hermes Investment Management has chosen IHS Markit’s TCA platform ahead of incoming best execution obligations under MiFID II.
The technology provider’s TCA platform...
Daniel Mayston leaves BlackRock
Daniel Mayston has resigned from BlackRock after nearly 20 years at the world’s largest asset manager, according to sources close to the company.
Mayston was...
PGIM: Research indicates liquidity event is tail risk with greatest impact
In a survey of 400 senior investment decision-makers at institutional investors in Australia, China, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US with a combined...
On The DESK: Trading and Technology collaborating for the future
Erik Tumasz and Josh Grodin of Wellington Management on honing trillion-dollar Wellington Management’s technology-driven edge in trading.
How do you structure your trading desks?
Josh Grodin:...
Candriam promotes bond chief to CIO
Candriam, the global multi-asset manager has appointed Nicolas Forest, Candriam’s global head of fixed income since 2013, as its new chief investment officer (CIO),...
