On The DESK: Leaders in bond trading pinpoint risks and opportunities
We asked the buy-side traders we have profiled on The DESK for the past ten years to discuss the biggest changes they thought had...
Investor Demand: BofA sees investor sentiment bounce back in May
The Bank of America Global Fund Manager Survey (FMS) has seen the scaling back of US-China tariffs as a net positive for activity. In...
Oscar Kressner joins Millennium
Oscar Kressner has joined alternative asset manager Millennium Management Global Investment, as a portfolio manager covering global macro investing. Millennium, which has US$56 billion...
Overbond launches real-time AI bond pricing trading product
Fixed income analytics provider, Overbond, has launched COBI-Pricing LIVE, a new real-time AI bond pricing product. COBI-Pricing LIVE is designed to process real-time historical...
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...
Tim Kurpis named portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein
Tim Kurpis has been named senior vice president (SVP) and portfolio manager, credit at AllianceBernstein, thirteen years after joining the firm in the role...
Santiago Braje joins PGGM
Industry veteran Santiago Braje has joined PGGM as senior investment manager, focusing on emerging markets debt.
In a statement the firm said, “He brings a...
UBS AM: Central bank mandates could change as deficit spend grows
Barry Gill, head of investments, UBS Asset Management has said that the market volatility seen in US markets following Trump’s 2016 election victory may...
PLSA: Absorbed research costs must not impede transparency for investors
By Flora McFarlane.
The majority of large asset managers are opting to absorb research costs rather than pass them onto clients, but investors must investigate...
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Buy side wants new tools in primary market tsunami
Several buy-side traders report new primary bond market tools could come online this year in the US, with dealer consortium DirectBooks expected to step...
