Buy-side profile
A head trader’s
360 degree perspective of
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FIXED INCOME and
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
TRADING
Adrian Biesty
Head of Trading, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
Adrian was one of the influential advisory board members ahead
of planning for the 7 th annual Alpha Trader Forum Global Summit
2019. With a career working both on the buy- and sell-side trading
multiple asset classes, Adrian shares his expertise about buy-side
fixed income and foreign exchange trading.
Which are your current priorities and asset class
responsibilities?
We pretty much trade every asset class globally, in
local/hard currency, through cash, listed and OTC
exposures. Lombard Odier IM is fortunate enough
to have trading desks in Hong Kong, Geneva,
London and New York.
There is a steady stream of projects coming in,
which have an impact on trading across various
Spring 2019
asset classes. We just delivered centrally cleared
CDS trading ahead of schedule, and from day one
we have already started to see both pricing and
operational benefits.
Over the last few years the skew on project work
has been regulatory, however we have managed
to seek out value added propositions to trading
methodology, built a bespoke liquidity index and
enhanced STP.
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