Global asset management group First Sentier Investors has integrated with FlowLink via multi-asset execution and order management systems specialist FlexTrade’s FlexTRADER EMS to access local block liquidity data in emerging markets.
Flowlinx simplifies block liquidity search in emerging and frontier market equities which can bechallenging.
The company’s data connectivity network aggregates and streamlines pre-trade information from local brokerages across more than 30 emerging and frontier markets.
“We are proud to work with First Sentier Investors, a highly regarded specialists in emerging markets equities and are delighted to be part of the FlexTRADER EMS,” said Yan Gloukhovski, Founder of Flowlinx.
He added that it is an automated process, eliminating manual input and bringing reliable, actionable information to the surface. “Information is delivered via a unique relationship-based protocol leading to meaningful and actionable conversations, he said.
Todd Prado, Global Head of Dealing at First Sentier Investors said the partnership is like an extension to its development team.
“This integration with Flowlinx allows our team to better source liquidity in the harder to reach markets,” he added. “This helps us automate workflow and communication with counterparts from within the multi-asset FlexTRADER EMS.” he said.
Many emerging markets are thinly traded, and they have been on a roller coaster ride over the past 18 months, diving in the first half of 2020 before rebounding strongly in the closing months of 2020 and the start of this year as investors piled into economically sensitive stocks in the so-called reflation trade after China became the first major economy to rebound from the pandemic.
Fast forward to the second half and China’s clamped down on private enterprise has pushed the MSCI Emerging Markets Index — with about a third of its weight in Chinese names – to 0.7% from a 2021 high of 12%.
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