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Our Role

FX Investing

H.W. Anderson plays a significant role in the global institutional FX trading industry as a Foreign Exchange recruitment expert. The FX industry is one of the largest and most liquid markets in the financial world. We have been involved in the sustenance of fundamental FX investment alongside being a key hand in the development of quantitative FX trading platforms across multiple hedge funds. In our Dublin and New York office, we have dedicated quantitative trading placement teams, these teams cover FX traders, FX Senior traders, FX Operations and FX Analysts; this covers both systematic and fundamental trading teams. Since 2016 we have made FX trading placements across Europe, the United States and Asia. 

Executive Headhunters for Hedge Funds

Broad Scope

FX Client Coverage

We operate as a key foreign exchange recruitment firm across major FX markets, spanning across North America, Europe and Asia. We have a stellar reputation amongst Hedge fund FX clients and proprietary FX trading clients. Our track record historically has been on Fundamental FX trading, primarily trading FX options. However we now have a growing expertise focused on delivering Systematic FX trading talent, both on high frequency based trading and low frequency trading.

Firms

  • Multi Strategy Hedge Funds – We deliver talent to a wide variety of FX trading roles at Multi strategies, these roles can include carrying out fundamental analysis, technical analysis, and quantitative analysis, alongside trading operations or executions. 
  • Proprietary FX Trading – We execute a widespread variety of proprietary trading headhunting mandates. Many institutional clients have proprietary trading arms, they directly use FX trading in order to hedge risk taken on board in other markets such as global credit investment. 
  • Systematic FX Trading – HW Anderson carries out a range of Systematic FX trading mandates. This involves statistical analysis and is delivered by our Quantitative researcher recruiting team. Alongside this we also headhunt Statistical Arbitrage FX execution trading talent for a range of hedge funds and trading clients. Systematic clients are increasingly seeking out our foreign exchange recruitment services.

Global Strategic Relationships

Our Clients

FX trading is by nature global. We have clients in every major financial center.  We are actively working Systematic FX trading and Fundamental FX trading mandates in New York, Geneva , London, Singapore and Paris as a foreign exchange recruitment specialist of choice. We have recently expanded into African FX trading recruitment, and are supporting our clients growing interest in Emerging Market FX trading search mandates. 

ROLE TYPES

Talent Pool Access

We work across a range of functional roles with a front office focus. These include but are not limited to the following:

ETF FX TRADING

We have successfully carried out multiple ETF FX trading  search mandates, we have well developed connections across different investment funds, especially fundamentally traded FX Indexes.

EM FX TRADING

We have recently expanded into Emerging market FX trading. As a general industry trend emerging market exposure has grown significantly, this applies to any majorly traded financial product and FX is no different. Institutions use a variety of methodologies to gain exposure whilst hedging risk in these markets. We have assisted our clients in various forms such as Recruiting ETF FX traders or helping them expand their Quantitative research team by sourcing top quality personnel.

FX OPTIONS TRADING

FX options trading is employed by all of our hedge fund based clients in order to hedge FX risk alongside generating alpha via currency shifts. As a trusted foreign exchange recruitment expert we have carried out numerous search mandates across Senior and Junior level FX trading mandates. FX options trading is used by both systematic and fundamental based trading strategies. FX trading teams have a range of personnel. From data and risk analysts to execution traders we have detailed experience and databases across the entire spectrum of candidates.

AI WITHIN FX TRADING

AI is being increasingly used within FX trading, our search mandates have reflected the recent uptake within AI. AI powered algorithms naturally lend itself to HFT trading, we have expertise in actively carrying out HFT FX Trading mandates across North America, Europe and Asia. We also have extensive contacts in Natural Language processing algorithmic trading mandates, once again we have experienced high demand for NLP trading search mandates across our client base.

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Team

Our People

Within the hyper-competitive and tight-knit trading and investment community our growth as a firm since inception has been exponential and truly organic. Every specialist HW Anderson consultant has been trained in-house and from-scratch. This ensures our methodology is original and consistent and that our culture is unique. Thanks to this growth we are positioned as a leader in Trans-Atlantic front office search. With three established offices, in the USA, UK and EU, our talented team is uniquely positioned to deliver meaningful value for our clients into the future.

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