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Staying of ahead
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One of The TRADE’s previous Rising Stars and head of trading at Liontrust
Asset Management, Matt McLoughlin, talks to John Brazier about the firm’s
move to multi-asset trading, the importance of ‘softer’ trading skills and
how change creates opportunities for those ready to take advantage.
I
want people to be constantly pushing the
boundaries. To be asking how we can im-
prove and how we can break the paradigm.
Looking at what's new out there and doing
something different. To be constantly trying
to improve. If you don't have people that
want to do that, I probably don't want them
in my firm, quite frankly.”
This sentiment could be cut straight from the speech of
a sports team’s head coach or the CEO of a multi-billion
dollar technology giant, but Matt McLoughlin, head of
trading at London-based Liontrust Asset Management,
clearly believes in the message his words convey: That
ultimately, performance is driven by attitude, and that a
poor attitude can only derive poor performance.
The search for constant improvement is one that Mc-
Loughlin has if not instilled then at the least crystallised
across Liontrust’s trading operations during his time with
the firm. It’s an attitude that leads him to the gym each
morning before heading to the office, where, he says, he
24 // TheTrade // Fall 2019