Axa Investment Managers
FIX-ing Liquidity in Fixed Income
Project Neptune aims to help firms access liquidity in fixed income.
2014: A Year in Profiles
12 months, 12 C-level execs profiled in the pages of Waters
Top Stories of 2014: The Buy Side Beefs Up
Variety and volatility framed this year's tech developments
2014 Review: Firms Stretch Tight Budgets to Meet Regs, ID New Data
Data consumers continued to feel the pressure of tight budgets and new regulation in 2014, but also faced the added pressure of trying to find ways to generate alpha from data within those budgetary constraints.
TradingScreen Teams with Asset Managers for Fixed Income Crossing Platform
Axa and Natixis among asset managers partnering with TradingScreen.
EFIS 2014: AXA CIO Says Make IT Costs Transparent to Incentivize Business Lines to Manage Budgets
Financial firms can reduce their IT costs and improve relations between internal teams by adopting a service-based budget and a clear governance model aimed at enhancing staff accountability and incentives, following an example recently implemented at…
Unexpected Sources Of Value
Value, in relation to data operations and management, can mean more than just the importance of the information. It can also be derived from smart collaboration and cultivation.
Bridging the IT-Business Divide
Hervé Morel-Derocle of Axa Investment Managers tells Michael Shashoua how collaboration between firms’ IT and business units can produce value through better data management
Challenge Accepté: AXA Investment Managers CIO Hervé Morel-Derocle
During one of his frequent trips to London, AXA Investment Managers CIO Hervé Morel-Derocle spoke to Marina Daras about the bold moves he made when faced with the looming obsolescence of the firm’s desktops.
The Perils of Data Outsourcing
Dublin-based consultant Michael McMorrow finds lessons for the financial industry in a consumer purchase data security scandal close to home
E-Trading Corporate Bonds: Act Two?
In part one of his two-part feature on the electronic trading of corporate bonds, Jake Thomases traveled back in time to understand why an early explosion of credit trading platforms disappeared almost as soon as it arrived. In part two, he asks whether…
The Lost Generation of Corporate Bond Platforms
Corporate bonds today remain among the most manual instruments to trade. But it did not have to be this way. Starting as far back as the late 1990s, attempts have been made to automate institutional credit trading. In part one of this two-part feature,…
TradingScreen, FXall Compete for Axa's Affections
Axa Investment Managers, a Paris-headquartered asset management firm with £460 billion (approx. $730bn) under management, has begun implementation of TradingScreen's execution management system (EMS), TradeEMS.