Following the European Commission’s recent changes to the MiFID II regulation, Annabel Smith takes a look at the UK and Europe’s opposing approaches to dark trading and market transparency post-Brexit and the potential for a fragmented liquidity landscape.
Ahead of TradeTech, global head of trading at Legal & General Investment Management, Ed Wicks, gives his thoughts on some of the hottest topics discussed at TradeTech Europe this year, including remote working, automation and outsourced trading.
As Europe is yet to see the significant uptake in actively managed ETFs that the US market has experienced, Annabel Smith asks why that is and how active ETFs operate.
Standard Life Aberdeen’s Keith Skeoch replaces Peter Harrison, CEO of Schroders, as chair of the board at the Investment Association.
Legal & General will use the cloud-based system from Charles River for its global trading operations.
Plato Partnership bolsters list of buy-side founding members with Invesco, Janus Henderson and Legal & General Investment Management.
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.
Three years after joining Legal & General Investment Management to run its equities trading, Ed Wicks now heads up the firm’s global trading operations, placing emphasis on the benefits of incremental improvement. Wicks speaks to John Brazier about the changes he has made during his time with the asset manager and what the future holds for the head of trading role.
Legal & General Investment Management has chosen Axioma in risk management and analytics capabilities expansion.
Mark Zinkula, CEO of LGIM, will retire in August next year after seven years as CEO.