People: Hunter leaves MarketAxess; Louchard at AXA IM
Nichola Hunter has left MarketAxess as head of its rates business. Hunter joined the firm in 2020 when it acquired government bond marketplace LiquidityEdge,...
RPMI Railpen confirms trading to be insourced
RPMI Railpen, which represents the UK’s railway workers pension fund, has confirmed plans to internalise its trading desk, which is expected to be operational...
Algomi/Euroclear deal may open access to 373,000 bonds
Pre-trade data provider Algomi has significantly extended the universe of bonds for which it can publish trading opportunities, by signing a new agreement with...
Vanguard and BlackRock get stuck into active bond funds following ‘horror show’ in 2022
In a new paper entitled ‘Active Fixed Income Perspectives Q3 2022: Bonds are back’ the fixed income team at investment giant Vanguard, led by...
State Street consolidates client-facing Investment Services under O’Hanley
Louis Maiuri, president, chief operating officer and head of Investment Services at State Street Corporation will retire by early 2024, with Ron O’Hanley, chairman...
Aegon Asset Management appoints global CIO for fixed income
Aegon Asset Management has appointed Russ Morrison as its new global chief investment officer responsible for managing its €170 (US $188) billion fixed income...
InvestorAccess reaches milestone with 500th institutional investor on board
IHS Markit reports it has onboarded the 500th institutional investor to its buy-side InvestorAccess community, the firm’s digital primary market platform.
InvestorAccess first launched in...
EM in ‘limbo’ provides trading and pricing challenges
Emerging market bond funds have seen outflows continue to slow significantly, with Morgan Stanley’s analysts estimating it at US$1.8 billion, equating to about 0.42%...
FILS Day 2: Heat around the consolidated bond tape
One of the more positive messages from the second day of the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit (FILS) was regarding positive progress on the development...
US unbundling does not impose fiduciary execution rules on dealers
By Flora McFarlane.
US banks are able to unbundle trade execution and research payments without incurring fiduciary responsibility for trade execution. Following a lengthy process...
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