The big shocks hitting portfolios in 2022
Portfolio managers have some very large events to consider, along with many more nuanced side-effects. At the beginning of the year, rising inflation and interest rates ...
FILS 2021: Macros pressures not shaking bond investor confidence
Investors remain optimistic on debt markets despite the possibility of higher inflation, Fed tapering and disruption from structural changes in China according to ...
Data’s weakness in March crisis accelerates calls for European tape
Where European bond market infrastructure has lagged behind US, traders – and therefore investors – have suffered. From a promised age of enlightenment, many traders ...
Power to the people
New trading protocols can create paths to best execution or confound it through complexity. Chris Hall reports. “Every nation gets the government it deserves” was ...
CIOs assess stormy markets ahead
l tor: Phillippe Waechter, Ostrum Asset Management; Chris Iggo, AXA; Rick Lacaille, SSGA; Nancy Davis, Quadratic Capital Management
Portfolio trading challenged on best execution
For decades, tourists have flocked to Spain’s Costa Brava in anticipation of the three Ss, broadly understood to refer to sun, sea and sangria. At last week’s FILS ...
Plenary: Tips to be the best trading desk
Daniel Leon, global head of Trading & Securities Financing, AXA Investment Managers A sophisticated analysis of trading impact, total cost and the market ecosystem ...
Connectivity vs relationship control is on the agenda at FILS
Support for streaming firm prices is contingent on connectivity between price-makers and price-takers; a big question which will play out over this year’s Fixed Income ...
On the DESK : Lee Sanders, AXA Investment Managers
Lee Sanders, head of Head of Execution at AXA Investment Managers believes that increasing automation is the biggest issue on buy-side trading desks. How has the ...
Buy side ‘owes’ it to the market to make progress with tech
By Joel Clark.
AXA IM appoints Yannig Loyer as global head of trading
AXA Investment Managers has appointed Yannig Loyer as global head of trading. In a statement the firm observed this is a “key role given the increased regulatory ...
Fixed Income Leaders : The DESK
Fixed Income Leaders – Expectations for 2018 The DESK spoke with members of the advisory panel for FILS Amsterdam to assess the likely agenda. In November 2018, Brexit ...
Paul Squires to join Invesco
Paul Squires is to join Invesco as head of EMEA Equity Trading, the asset management firm has confirmed, leaving his role as head of trading and securities finance at ...
Corporate bonds : How big is credit? : Joel Clark
STANDING ROOM ONLY FOR CREDIT PLATFORMS. As corporate bond trading platforms do battle, the size of the prize is not clear. Joel Clark reports. How much profit can a ...
Missing liquidity - Zen and the art of liquidity maintenance
Regulators cannot find the liquidity problem that traders see daily, threatening to set rules for game ‘A’, when game ‘B’ is played out in the markets. Chris Hall ...
