Hermes Investment Management was the recent winner of mid-cap trading desk of the year at The TRADE’s annual awards. Here, head of trading, Daniel Nicholls, tells Hayley McDowell about the asset manager’s process for effective use of transaction cost analysis.
As volumes seemingly continue to migrate towards the end of the trading day, Hayley McDowell investigates the rise of closing auctions in Europe and its impact on continuous trading for asset managers.
With an increasing number of buy-side firms turning to outsourced trading providers in recent years, Hayley McDowell finds out how providers really operate and differ from agency brokers, and examines what benefits opting for outsourced execution can offer to the asset management industry.
Hermes Investment Management will implement FactSet’s analytics and multi-asset risk platform.
Asset manager established Irish-based management firm in January as part of Brexit contingency plans.
Research from Opimas predicts greater focus on outsourced trading as asset managers struggle with rising operational costs.
Carol Mahon and Aoifinn Devitt to lead new Irish entity established in response to possible ‘hard Brexit’ scenario.
As two major trading venues launch request for quote (RFQ) models for equities trading, Hayley McDowell delves into the specifications of each RFQ systems, and after speaking to sceptical senior buy-siders, finds that the venues could face significant barriers to market-wide adoption.
Ahead of the anticipated launch of RFQ for equities from two major trading venues, Hayley McDowell speaks to senior buy-siders and finds out that most are very sceptical of the idea.