Matthew James

Pendal Group is a multi boutique investment Manager with over 122bn of assets under management ( FUM July 2023).

Responsibilities:

• Perform daily execution and dealing functions for the Small Cap and REIT funds in the Equities boutique.
• Apply best execution techniques to orders executed across the Small cap and reit portfolio’s using all available methods (High touch, low touch algo’s, dark pool aggregators, DMA).
• Discussed trading strategies with portfolio managers to highlight current market sentiment, price points of resistance and support and liquidity characteristics of positions.
• Foster relationship with back office operations and custodians to ensure smooth work flow from trade execution to matching.
• Contribute to daily equities meeting with overnight market thematics and respond to any market/stock specific queries.
• Discussed trading strategies with portfolio managers to highlight current market sentiment, price points of resistance and support and liquidity characteristics of positions.
• Review trade cost analytics on a trade by trade basis and provide monthly reporting to the portfolio management team.
• Ensure all funds are compliant as per trust deed guidelines and external mandate restrictions.
• Maintain and foster mutually beneficial relationships with all panel brokers.
• Provide back up resource to the execution of large cap orders and SMA product offering.
• Ad-Hoc project work.

BTIM was a multi-boutique investment manager with $80bn under management.

Responsibilities:

• Perform daily exposure Management and dealing functions for a variety of asset classes.
• Execute all FX transactions (both spot and forward) on both Active and hedge positions.
• Administer positions when required (rebalancing, rolls etc.) including the review of daily exposures on hedge positions.
• Execute futures trades for active funds including the trading of tactical asset allocations for Diversified funds.
• Executing unit trust interfund trades and coordinating cash requirements with portfolio managers.
• Perform model changes on all portfolios as required.
• Trade processing – filling and extraction of all trades via order management systems.
• Coordinate trade files to back office and key go to person for any breaks.
• Assist in the execution and administration of Option trades for equity strategy.
• Review and coordinate cash flow transactions with internal portfolio managers, and external International Equity Asset managers.
• Serve key relationships with BTFG Tax and Accounting services in order to facilitate efficient end to end trade processing.
• Serve key relationships with counterparties in order to stay in touch with Market developments, news and to ensure best execution.
• Reduce operational risk by working closely with internal stakeholders (IT and operations) in developing robust processes.
• End to end processing of all voluntary and involuntary corporate action events in order management system’s to ensure exposures are accurate.
• Processing of Quarter end and Year end distributions and managing reinvestment exposures of all applicable funds.
• Monitoring of unlisted and derivative pricing to ensure accurate exposures.
• Extensive beta testing on all new systems, processes and application upgrades.