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From FX veterans to multi-asset traders:
Aberdeen’ s blueprint for the next dealing desk
Patrick Smith, head of trading, Americas at Aberdeen Investments, speaks with CLAUDIA PREECE about the empirical reality of the evolution of desks as hard-won trading experience begins to exit the game, unpacking why this presumed‘ loss’ of expertise is being offset by a three-pronged transformation – a trifecta of multi-asset desks, automation, and developing junior talent.
The challenge facing Aberdeen is one replicated across the trading sphere, representing just one example of the changing face of trading desks. A change which will indeed mean an evolution of Aberdeen Investments globally.
Specifically, a conversation with Patrick Smith, head of trading, Americas at Aberdeen Investments centred on the impact of the retirement of two UK-based FX dealers with a combined 60
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