Buy-Side

Alongside the hiring of Soros’ former global head of trading, StoneX has appointed a portfolio construction specialist from Cambridge Associates to its outsourced team.

EBS Institutional report finds that over half of asset managers surveyed were using multiple systems to ensure business continuity in the event of a system failure.

Sherpa Edge Trading, led and founded by two former fixed income traders at Nordea Investment Management, has received regulatory approval to launch in the Nordics.

Equities trading technology chief at JP Morgan Asset Management has joined Barclays Wealth Management as chief information officer.

Head of investments and group chief investment officer, Rob Sharps, will replace Bill Stromberg as CEO when he steps down later this year.

The partnership will see Appital and Turquoise expand the liquidity opportunities and efficiencies available to mutual buy-side clients.  

New strategic sales advisor has worked in fixed income sales management across Societe Generale, HSBC, Citi, and Deutsche Bank.

The start-up data pooling network has gained significant ground with the buy-side ahead of its launch later this year, offering a ‘data dividend’ to the users that contribute information.

A Northern Trust survey found that 98% of buy-side firms are using data science or planning to pursue it to optimise performance in the next two years.

The partnership will enable asset management clients to better consolidate and analyse their trading and portfolio data.