Buy-Side

A week on from the US’ so-called ‘Liberation Day’, Claudia Preece catches up with traders on both sides of the street to understand the state of play...

SimCorp and TS Imagine initially partnered in 2017 and recently combined their products to offer an integrated, multi-asset class solution for asset managers.

Exiting individual has been with Fidelity International for almost nine years.

Prior to joining Fidelity in 2018, Whyman served stints at BlackRock, ABN AMRO and Bear Stearns in various fixed income trading roles.

The TRADE sits down with Jason Xavier, head of EMEA and Asia ETF capital markets at Franklin Templeton Investments, to unpack the current state of play across the exchange traded fund landscape, including how the trading of ETF’s has evolved, differing activity between the US and the UK, and the key market structure changes to keep an eye on.

McLoughlin has been with Liontrust for almost 10 years, most recently as its chief commercial officer; the asset manager has opted to outsource its trading following his departure.

Set to go live in March, the co-pilot aims to allow the buy-side to make more informed decisions on which algo strategy to use in a bid to reduce their implicit costs.

Approximately 20% of trading activity is executed with the top broker, while 60% is executed with the top five brokers, Coalition Greenwich’s report suggests.

Consolidation plans set to negatively impact smaller boutique asset management firms most heavily, said experts speaking at a closed roundtable, as the “opportunity to compete” may potentially dissolve completely.