About CF Global

OUR CLIENTS

Our clients are asset managers, pension funds, and hedge funds across the globe with AUM ranging from $50m to $50 billion. CF works on behalf of many leading global investment managers operating Long Only, Long/Short, Global, Macro and Emerging Market strategies. Some clients want a fully outsourced solution, while others deploy a hybrid model with a central dealing desk partnering with CF Global in regions where they don't have live desks.

OUR HISTORY

Scott Chace and Robert Fleming founded CF Global Trading in 2000 to offer outsourced trading services to startup funds. Scott ran Asian trading for Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management in New York and Robert headed up Sales Trading for ING Barings Hong Kong. Twenty years on, our client mix is more evenly spread between new funds and established asset managers. Some of our first customers are still with us today.

WHY FUNDS CONTACT CF GLOBAL

We are dedicated to a superior quality of service that truly differentiates us from our competitors.

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

Funds ask us to establish or extend live-hours global dealing — with no own operational cost or risk. Free up time for PM’s who trade to focus on the core investment process. Tap execution links to a wide range of global brokers and e-channels via one aggregate connection. Implement seamless, consistent trade and reconciliation workflow they don’t have to create or maintain in-house.

QUALITY EXECUTION

Funds leverage with CF Global the expertise of a dedicated global desk with no conflict of interest. Global, high-touch, experienced. Broad algorithm, MTF and dark pool access to actively source liquidity. A professional team with the tools and experience to improve client outcomes and reduce overall trading costs borne by the fund’s investors.

ADDRESS REGULATION

Funds ask: ‘Do we have the expertise in-house to create, implement, monitor and update our own best execution process that lets us evidence best execution to clients and regulators, consistently and over time? Partnership with CF Global answers that question, giving fund clients a high-level strategy and consistent process around trading and trade monitoring. Broker-neutral TCA in an active feedback loop. MiFID II RTS 28 and transaction reporting. Clear separation of payment for trading from payment for research.

TRUST

Our asset management clients continue to deal with us based on trust built over many years. Data-driven analysis and transparency now underpin these long-term relationships. We are committed to true partnership – we get paid only when we trade, and our clients carry no fixed cost.

LEADERSHIP

Our trading and operations professionals bring decades of cross-border expertise and a deep understanding of local markets.

Founders

Scott Chace

Prior to co-founding CF Global in 2000, Scott worked for Tiger Management as their first Asia trader in New York. He began his trading career with Merrill Lynch and later established the Tiedemann International Research trading desk in Tokyo. Scott has an Economics & Russian Studies degree from the University of Vermont.

Robert Fleming

Robert began his career trading Japanese equities at Vickers Da Costa in London. He then joined Barings (later ING Barings and ultimately Macquarie), serving as Head of Sales Trading for the Asia Pacific region. Robert has lived and worked in Hong Kong for more than 20 years. He is licensed by the Hong Kong SFC as a Director and Responsible Officer and oversees CF Global’s extensive Asian operations from Hong Kong.

Senior Leadership

Ed Dejoux

Head of Trading, Americas

Ed joined CF Global in 2008 and has more than 25 years' experience in institutional trading. Before joining CF Global, he served as Head of Global Institutional Trading and Regional Head of US Institutional Brokerage at E*TRADE. Ed has a BA in Economics from Connecticut College.

Steve Blackburn

Head of Trading, Europe

Steve opened the CF Global office in London in 2002, joining from Marathon Asset Management where he worked as a global equity trader. Steve has more than 20 years’ trading experience on both the buyside and sell side.

Andrew Lawrence

Head of Trading, Asia

Andy began his 30-year career trading equities and options on the London Stock Exchange before moving to Asia to help open Instinet’s Hong Kong trading desk. He ran sales trading at BNP Asia, held roles at BZW, Credit Agricole and Dresdner Bank and set up one of the first buyside trading desks in Asia at LGT Asset Management. Andy joined CF Global in 2009.

Helen Brake

Global Head of Operations

Helen joined CF Global in 2008 and has more than 20 years of financial markets experience. She previously held positions at E*TRADE Securities, as Head of Trade Support, and at Winterflood Securities. Helen holds a Level 3 Certificate in Securities, issued by CISI, and an Advanced Business GNVQ.

Pierre Bastien

Chief Technology Officer

Pierre is responsible for CF Global’s proprietary technology products and trading vendor relationships. He was previously Director of Product Strategy at E*TRADE Capital Markets, and began his career at TIR Securities in New York, overseeing DMA trading operations. Pierre has a BA in Economics from Princeton University.

Dominic Howlett

European Head of Fixed Income

Dominic joins from Newton Investment Management, the London-based subsidiary of BNY Mellon, where he spent 20 years trading bonds for their portfolio managers.  His global experience extends to developed and emerging market government bonds, investment grade credit and high yield, money market instruments, FX and all associated derivatives.

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About CF Global

OUR CLIENTS

OUR HISTORY

WHY FUNDS CONTACT CF GLOBAL

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