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Building success in a fragmented US
ANNABEL SMITH sits down with Melissa Hinmon, director of equity trading at Glenmede Investment Management and winner of The TRADE’ s Buy-side Market Structure Expert of the Year Award at Leaders in Trading New York 2024, to explore her career thus far, discuss advice for those starting out in the industry, and highlight the standout market structure themes for 2025.
Melissa Hinmon’ s extensive experience in the industry has taught her many life lessons that make her the successful director of equity trading at Glenmede Investment Management that she is today. One of the results of these experiences has been several nominations and a subsequent win at Leaders in Trading New York 2024, where she took home the award for Buy-side Market Structure Expert of the Year.
Hinmon has a career history that spans nearly four decades, with the last 10 years spent at her current firm. Originally joining Glenmede in 2015 as an equity trader, she took on her role heading up the buy-side firm’ s equities trading business in 2017.
Originally joining the industry as a runner on the trading floor of NYSE Chicago- formerly known as the Midwest Stock Exchange, her career was nothing short of a baptism of fire, igniting a passion for the markets that would lead to her current seat today.
“ It was electrifying [ seeing ] the energy people had and the interest in the companies where stocks were
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