Christoph Hock, head of multi-asset trading at Union Investment, accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading 2023 gala awards ceremony last night.
Collecting his award, long term friend of The TRADE and buy-side stalwart Hock highlighted the importance of relationships, people and collaboration in this industry.
Hock – whose career in trading spans three decades – is a well-known advocate for institutional adoption of digital assets and distributed ledger technology (DLT) and in his acceptance speech he highlighted the importance of both in the future trading landscape.
In August, news broke that he is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within Union Investment.
Hock has been with Union Investment since 2014 and has been instrumental in the development of the firm’s trading strategy and structure. In 2015, the European asset manager unified its trading teams under one multi-asset trading desk as part of a strategic review, aimed at executing a greater percentage of orders sent by portfolio managers.
Union underwent another makeover in 2021, taking on a new hybrid organisational structure that divided this central trading desk into three teams, with his traders filtered by execution type.
The TRADE would like to extend its congratulations to Hock for his long-standing commitment and service to the industry.