Man Group reports profits down, AUM up
Alternative investment management firm, Man Group, has reported a 65% drop in profit before tax (PBT) in H1 2023 against the first half of...
Mutual funds leveraging futures to increase portfolio risk and yield
US Treasury futures holdings among mutual funds have shot up over the last three years, as they adjust to a “higher for longer” interest...
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Financial Conduct Authority approves Trax and Tradeweb for MiFID II Reporting
By Flora McFarlane.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has granted approval to Trax and Tradeweb as Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) for transparency and reporting under...
Investor Demand: European corporate debt plays second fiddle to the US
Zachary Swabe, total return portfolio manager for European high yield and global credit at UBS Asset Management, spoke to The DESK about the current...
MarketAxess claims X-Pro boosts trader efficiency by 20%
MarketAxess has presented its new X-Pro trading interface as delivering a significant efficiency boost to bond traders.
Speaking with analysts on the firm’s Q4 2023...
Anthony Phillips expands Reinsurance Group of America role
Reinsurance Group of America has named Anthony Phillips as interim head of APAC portfolio management. He is based in London.
This expands on Phillips’ existing...
Jaclyn Coffman joins Susquehanna
Jaclyn Coffman has joined the investment grade (IG) credit sales team at Susquehanna International Group. She is based in New York.
Coffman has more than...
High Court of Hong Kong: Evergrande insolvent
A winding up order has been made against China Evergrande Group, the troubled property firm, through the High Court of Hong Kong.
In her ruling...
Liquidnet: 39% of buy-side firms rethinking use of TCA
By Flora McFarlane.
Traditional transaction cost analysis (TCA) could be a casualty in the shifting landscape of pre- and post-MiFID II regulation, with 39% of...
Europe IG credit trade size collapsed and has not recovered
Corporate bond traders has seen the average trade size reducing in Europe across both investment grade and high yield, suggesting that block trading is...
FILS 2018: Advent of AI sees traders reskill, retool
By Chris Hall.
Buy-side traders risk redundancy and irrelevance if they do not adapt to the opportunities for automation of fixed-income execution provided by new...
Credit: The big takeaways from FILS Europe
In a market ‘obsessed’ with yield pick up, seeing considerable inflows into bond funds, corporate debt is getting bought up en masse. While this...
