Buy-Side

APG Investment Management’s chief investment officer and Natixis Investment Managers chief operating officer have been appointed as vice presidents to Abou-Jaoudé.

Speaking to The TRADE, Wells Fargo’s Peter Eliades said the uptake in merit-based broker wheels on the US buy-side was driven by increasing demand for more efficient execution.

Eze Investment Suite by SS&C Technologies will be used across CSOP Asset Management’s equities, ETFs and leverage and inverse products.

New head of execution at BLS Capital has extensive buy-side trading experience with the last two years spent as a senior trader at Nordea Asset Management.

Coalition Greenwich report found that buy-side equities trading desks increased their budgets by 12% in 2020, while fixed income desk budgets declined by 1%.

The asset manager has appointed Terence Bong to oversee client activities for the South East Asia region and run the new office in Singapore.

Report by AIMA, PWC and Elwood AM found that 47% of traditional hedge funds were investing or considering investing in cryptocurrencies.

A report by Coalition Greenwich found that European swaps traders on the buy-side executed 45% of trades electronically, with the majority done via Tradeweb.

Through the expanded partnership, mutual clients can use the OEMS capabilities on the Aladdin platform from BlackRock alongside FlexTrade’s EMS capabilities.