Equities
Trend following struggles to return to vogue
Macro outlook for trend appears to be favourable, but 2023’s performance flop gives would-be investors pause for thought
Market regimes: how to spot them and how to trade them
Analysing how currency pairs behave in different market regimes can improve execution, writes Tradefeedr’s Alexei Jiltsov
WM/R fix and the curse of predictability
Investors should renew their focus on execution strategies around the 4pm fix, writes Alexei Jiltsov of Tradefeedr
Bargain-hunting equity hedgers turn to FX
Currency options are cheap relative to stock index puts, but correlations are uncertain
Investors trade the drama out of the crisis
How LGIM, AXA, Manulife and other buy-siders tackled the toughest markets since 2008
Algo adoption at inflection point, driven by buy side
Usage in FX is rising, but there are inherent limitations to overall take-up
BCS Global appoints Richards as director of prime services sales
Andrew Richards will target small- to medium-sized hedge funds
Potamus looks to new asset classes, including currencies
HFT firm sees US equities platform grow in past year and views outsourced trading as another area for expansion
FlexTrade hires two to grow sell-side Emea presence
Lak Loi and Vahid Shirani will be based in London
Liquidnet names Brian Conroy as president
Conroy joins from Fidelity International
Cboe’s Isaacson joins OCC board of directors
Chris Isaacson became chief operating officer at Cboe earlier this week
Citadel Securities appoints Culek as new COO
Matthew Culek joined the market-maker six years ago
Refinitiv expands in Mena, launches sentiment feed in Japan
Clients can access range of markets in Middle East and North Africa
Calpers did not notice price discrepancies in FX Cartel case
“If I had, I would’ve said something earlier,” managing investment director tells court
Barrow joins Nex’s Enso as head of Emea
Chris Barrow moves from Brown Brothers Harriman
Currency movements helped US and Latam investors in 2017
A new report from Natixis shows a weaker dollar helped investors outperform their European peers
Central banks to stay dovish, but messaging is key
Paying attention to what central banks say is the way to anticipate their moves in 2018
Nomura hires Credit Suisse's Sandoz to head equities
Todd Sandoz has returned to the equity market at Nomura, having left his post as global head of FX and Stirt at Credit Suisse last year
GKFX backs Rising Sum
Retail broker expands into equity-linked contracts-for-differences with new trading tool
CLS targets buy side with Omgeo
NEW YORK - CLS and Omgeo have teamed up to improve post-trade reporting by the buy-side community with the addition of CLS FX instructions to Omgeo’s standard settlement instruction (SSI) database.