FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Buy-side profile
ASPECT CAPITAL
AND A TYPICAL
WORKING DAY
Alex Clark
Senior Multi Asset Execution Trader at Aspect Capital
Alex Clark, Senior Multi-Asset Execution Trader at Aspect Capital, gives us an insight in to life as an
execution trader at a systematic hedge fund. As a specialist in Fixed income, FX and commodities, Alex
shares his thoughts on how he sees technology innovation changing the buy side trading landscape
over the next 5 years as well as his thoughts on algorithms.
I
am a Senior Multi Asset Execution
Trader at Aspect Capital which
I joined in 2013. Aspect is a
systematic investment manager
that was founded in 1997 by Anthony
Todd and Martin Lueck, pioneers in
the field of quantitative investing.
We currently manage $7.3bn in a
range of systematic strategies and
also increasingly provide customised
solutions for investors. As a firm, we
put a lot of emphasis on research
Winter/Spring 2020
and development, to ensure we
provide both innovative products
and diversifying performance to our
investors.
Aspect’s dealing desk handles all
execution for our strategies, on a 24/5
basis. The main role of the desk is the
oversight and exception management
of these trading strategies. We trade
over 200 Futures markets globally
across approximately 30 exchanges.
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These include over 100 OTC markets
ranging from FX (spot, forwards,
swaps, NDFs), Interest Rate Swaps,
CDS, Equities, ETFs, Options and more
esoteric hard to access markets like
Butane and Coal. We have a degree
of specialisation across the desk
and individuals tend to gravitate
towards a particular sector that they
have experience in. For instance, my
sector happens to be Fixed Income,
Currencies and Commodities.
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