Jump in with both feet first -- that's the mantra of Royal. The triathlete, who's competed in two Ironman competitions, embraces a challenge.
Lewis, a 14-year veteran, spearheaded a project at the global money manager to get real-time trade information for each execution. Every broker fill reveals an order-routing and execution footprint.
Fox oversaw the integration of his firm's trading system with its recent acquisition: Integrity Asset Management. And it's not over yet.
DeVito chooses to trade low touch for about 75 percent of his order flow. A former Nasdaq market maker at Citi, he is an unabashed fan of personal trading.
A myriad of exchanges, dark pools and smart-order routers and algorithms is not a concern for Walsh. Nearly every order he places is high touch.
The decision to cut back on broker capital was an easy one for Scafidi, when he had to make it not long after joining Brandes in 2007. When he arrived, the firm used capital more than 30 percent of the time. Now it uses it less than 5 percent of the time. .
Sean Murphy's philospohy is this: If you've got a great idea, make it a real position.
For Jensen, liquidity trumps price.
Thom will always pay a premium to get the largest fill he can.
Oversaw the trading desk's cessation of farming out some order flow to its external managers and to have the OPERS desk trade their stock picks.
Setzenfand is a second-generation trader. Her father, Dennis Green, was chairman of the STA. She will be too in 2012.
He joined the Milwaukee-based firm's desk right before the market meltdown began, roughly three years ago.
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