On The DESK: Trading and Technology collaborating for the future
Erik Tumasz and Josh Grodin, Wellington Management
Buy-side firms may dominate front office tech
Buy-side firms need to make secular decisions about whether to buy or sell technology to other asset managers. Dan Barnes reports. In April, CEO of State Street, Ron ...
Re-designing the fixed income landscape
Benjamin Bécar, Fixed Income Product Manager at smartTrade Technologies believes that growing access to data is enabling buy-side firms to transform their trading ...
Bond funds hit by massive fee discounts; active revenues predicted to fall
Bond funds are dropping their investment management fees by up to 37% - in the case of passive funds – from those of the published prices, in order to win business from ...
SSGA: Treasuries, convertibles and EM on the cards for 2019
By Vineet Naik.
Tabb: Derivatives boosting access to liquidity into 2019
By Pia Hecher.
Erik Tham leaves UBS Wealth for MarketAxess
Erik Tham, MarketAxess
Python eats traders
By Chris Hall.
Concern over data dominates corporate bond discussions
Limited access to data is impeding quantitative analysis of best execution for corporate bonds, leading to a need for more qualitative analysis for many bond trades.
Focus resources on fixed income TCA, industry urged
By Joel Clark.
AGI’s Böss: Margin compression and frustration with regulators
Eric Böss, Allianz & Rick McVey, MarketAxess
Greenwich Associates: Growth of electronic trading for EM bonds
A new report from analyst house Greenwich Associates has found that electronic trading of emerging market (EM) bonds has reached 70% amongst US asset managers.
SEC committee proposes bond issuance database for US credit
By Pia Hecher.
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 ...
WBR survey: Buy-side pushed towards price-making and ETF use
By Pia Hecher.
