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ON THE MOVE: DB, JPM, Triad Land Senior Execs

Traders Magazine Online News, April 18, 2017

John D'Antona Jr.

Deutsche Bank has reversed the exodus of staff that have departed the bank over the last several weeks with two new senior new hires in its Global Markets Americas business. Lori Arndt onboarded as Global Head of Client Strategy in Equities, where she will run equities client strategy, resource allocation, management reporting, reference data and monitoring tools across all equities product lines. Arndt previously worked at Surveyor Capital, a unit of Citadel, and also worked at Goldman Sachs and Nomura.

Lori Arndt

Also, Chris McCarthy was hired as a Director in Global Credit Trading, and Ronnie Shah, as a Director in Research, specializing in Quantitative Equity Strategy. Shah joins the bank from Gerstein Fisher Funds and previously served in senior quantitative research roles at BlackRock and Dimensional Fund Advisors.

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Matt Mallgrave, head of US equity flow trading at Credit Suisse, resigned, according to people familiar with the matter. Mallgrave, according to reports, is said tobe joining rival JPMorgan. Also at JPM, Marco Dion, head of the central risk book trading desk in Europe for equities, is departing after almost a decade at the US bank. He reported to Tim Johnston, head of equities cash trading in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Axioma, a provider of enterprise market risk and portfolio analytics solutions, has hired ex-BlackRock strategist Christopher Woida as Managing Director and head of its Index Business. He is responsible for strategy, development and sales in Axioma’s indexing initiative. Woida, who was with BlackRock for the last seven years, was one of the manager’s investment strategists and a founding member of the Factor-Based Strategies Group. While there he helped to build the company’s smart beta and factor-based platforms. He contributed to the design of the company’s first fixed income smart beta ETF, and its quantitative fixed income liquid alternatives mutual fund. More recently, he was the lead investment strategist for BlackRock’s flagship style factor hedge fund. Prior to that he was with Deutsche Bank Securities for two years, specializing in fixed income structured sales. He began his career at Intel Corporation, where he was a Senior R&D Engineer.

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