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  1. Personas
  2. Traditional Asset Management
  3. Trading
  4. Equities
  5. Global Equities

Persona

Global Equities.

Manages listed equity trading across developed and emerging markets for globally diversified portfolios

EntrySoftware spend $95,000 / seat / yr

What this role actually does

Responsibilities and pain points, sourced from the production graph.

Key responsibilities

  • Execute equity orders for client portfolios while minimizing implementation shortfall, information leakage, commissions, taxes, and opportunity cost.
  • Translate portfolio-manager instructions into order urgency, benchmark choice, broker selection, algo parameters, and escalation rules.
  • Monitor real-time liquidity, spreads, volatility, market depth, news, and venue behavior before and during order execution.
  • Run pre-trade compliance, restricted-list, mandate, and market-access checks before releasing orders to brokers or venues.
  • Maintain broker, algo, and venue performance reviews using transaction cost analysis and exception evidence.
  • Coordinate with investment operations to resolve allocations, confirmations, failed trades, corporate actions, and settlement-cycle issues.

Software pain points

  • Fragmented OMS, EMS, TCA, market data, and compliance screens slow decisions during high-volume opens, closes, and index rebalances.
  • Best-execution reviews depend on manual screenshots, emails, broker notes, and spreadsheet TCA packs.
  • Broker and algo performance is difficult to compare because benchmark choices, order urgency, market conditions, and outliers are inconsistent.
  • Market-data costs and exchange entitlements are opaque across regions, terminals, and internal feeds.
  • Post-trade allocation and settlement breaks consume trader attention after execution is complete.
  • New EM or APAC market coverage requires local calendars, board lots, investor IDs, short-sale rules, settlement cycles, and local data feeds.

Workflow

A day in the workflow.

Starts before the local market open by scanning Bloomberg Terminal, broker notes, overnight news, positions, cash, flows, and portfolio-manager instructions. Mid-morning is spent staging orders in an OMS, checking restricted lists and liquidity, then releasing trades to an EMS where broker algos, block indications, venue conditions, and live fills are monitored. The desk constantly switches between PM chat, broker calls, market data, TCA, compliance alerts, and operations exceptions; the highest-value moments are not clicking tickets but deciding when to slow down, cross, dark-route, use a broker, or stop trading. After the close, the trader reviews implementation shortfall, VWAP slippage, allocation breaks, settlement risks, broker color, and lessons for the next day's playbook.

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