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Wednesday
03 December 2008
07:27 GMT
Women in finance survey - PDF 91k
In September, Financial News surveyed 1350 women working in the financial services industry about gender bias in the workplace. Nearly 60% believed their gender made it harder to succeed. Just 3.5% felt being a woman made it easier to succeed. A third of respondents worked in investment banking, nearly a fifth in asset management, another fifth in financial technology, 10% in law and about 5% in each of private equity, hedge funds, wealth management and securities trading. Click here to dowload the survey results in full.
FN100 most influential women in finance 2008 - PDF 1000k
This is the second FN 100 list of the most influential women in European finance. While the glass ceiling appears to be rather more opaque in investment banking than in asset management, there are 16 chief executives and 46 heads of department on the list. Download the full list, including profiles, here.
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FN Research: Buyside Trading Poll
21 Jul 2008
FN Research: Buyside Trading Poll
21 Jul 2008
Read the results to the Financial News Buyside Trading Poll in full.
Last year’s agenda for buyside dealers was dominated by preparations for the markets in financial instruments directive, and the impact of November’s rule changes are beginning to filter through.
UBS dominated this year’s Financial News Buyside Trading Poll of broker-dealers as voted for by European fund managers, after being named the best bank in eight out of 14 categories, and coming runner-up in several more.
Nearly two thirds of European fund managers believe the markets in financial instruments directive has fragmented liquidity since it was implemented in November.
The markets in financial instruments directive has long been implemented by most fund management firms, yet the legislation, introduced last November, continues to shape buyside trading as it begins to have an impact on the wider reaches of European liquidity.
Fund management dealers may be sold on the importance of execution and new services that promise cheaper trading away from established stock exchanges but concerns remain about conflicts of interest when using banks and brokers, according to the poll.
This year’s league tables for buyside equity trading activities were dominated by the usual suspects, but there were notable reversals as several of last year’s winners lost their top spots to rivals.
The credit crisis has ravaged the fixed-income markets with the volume and quality of bonds and debt issued diminishing significantly since last year’s poll. Electronic trading of fixed income has also taken a battering, with asset managers taking comfort in the personal touch – and market insight – provided by dealing with their brokers over the phone.
Barclays Capital outstripped its peers in number of votes garnered as a top counterparty for fixed-income trading in the poll. The investment bank received 112 votes, followed by Deutsche Bank with 64 and UBS on 53.
On behalf of Financial News, Richard Davies Investor Relations polled fund management companies in Europe on their equity, fixed-income and foreign exchange dealing activities and their views of sellside counterparts. In some cases, respondents drawn from different trading desks and departments (equities and fixed income) of the same institution answered the relevant part of the questionnaire.
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