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My Machine is AT's cover story and is an interview with a leading member of the buyside who is active in algorithmic and / or automated trading.

  • Only the versatile need apply Only the versatile need apply

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYLegal and General Investment Management (LGIM) has some £300bn in assets under management invested globally. Almost half of this is invested in equities. Mary McCave, LGIM’s senior equity dealer, discusses how LGIM’s trading desk stays on top of the trade. full story

  • Morgan’s Mission Morgan’s Mission

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYAs one of the world’s largest fund managers, JPMorgan Asset Management’s trading operations increasingly resemble those of an agency broker. Daemon Bear, Head of Equity Trading, and Kristian West, Head of Trading Strategy, who recently joined from Barclays Capital, explain the tools and processes employed by the firm in pursuit of best execution. full story

  • Cream Rising Cream Rising

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYBlackCat Trading Technologies’ Matthew Breakwell and John Reeve explain their distinctive approach to building a quantitative trading platform and outline their plans for exploiting it. full story

  • Plimsoll Takes the Plunge Plimsoll Takes the Plunge

    QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSTo offer greater diversification to investors, US-based Plimsoll Capital introduced Armada, a portfolio of automated strategies. Tom Parry, Director of Algorithmic Trading, tells AT how the FX-focused asset manager built the platform on which Armada now sails. full story

  • Communicating Ltd: The Trader Stripped Bare Communicating Ltd: The Trader Stripped Bare

    REGISTERED VIEWERSCommunicating Ltd’s path to becoming one of London’s most profitable trading operations started with a revolutionary matching engine that fitted on a floppy disk. Vladan Jovanovic, Managing Director, tells AT how a stripped-down approach to trading and technology has been a consistent factor behind Communicating’s success. full story

  • Empirical execution: Aspect Capital Empirical execution: Aspect Capital

    FREE ARTICLEAspect Capital has a long pedigree as a systematic money manager. As such, it has been well placed to make a logical progression to automated and algorithmic trading. AT talks to Rob Wakefield, Aspect’s chief operating officer, about the firm’s recent activities in these areas and its empirical approach to order execution and algorithms. full story

  • The Boys from Balchug The Boys from Balchug

    FREE ARTICLEDmitry Bourtov runs the US-based hedge fund Solaris, as well as heading a group at the Moscow offices of data vendor CQG that combines the activities of a quant shop and a specialist financial software developer. Bourtov talks to AT about the process by which he and his team design and manage a fleet of automated trading models across hundreds of markets around the globe. full story

  • My Machine: The AT Interview - Algo Reality My Machine: The AT Interview - Algo Reality

    FREE ARTICLEInvestment management firm T. Rowe Price, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, has more than USD300bn under management. The company has a global presence and in common with other major asset managers uses execution algorithms in its various locations. AT talks to Clive Williams, head of European Equity Trading at T. Rowe Price’s London office about his desk’s experience with and expectations of algorithmic trading. full story

  • My Machine: The AT Interview - Amplitude Capital: Precision Automation

    FREE ARTICLEAutomation, both in terms of trading and back office processes, is an intrinsic part of Amplitude Capital’s day to day operation. AT talks to two of Amplitude’s principals, CEO Karsten Schroeder and CFO John Harrison about the firm’s technology, methods and ambitions. full story