Joe Sowin, CAIA, CMT

Head of Global Equity Trading
Highland Capital Management

Joseph R. Sowin, is responsible for Highland Capital’s global equity trading covering listed derivative trading. He has recently created a defined “trading process” that prescribes a set of trading rules and automates order flow where appropriate to improve trading efficiency. He will be sharing these autonomous methods of taking control of order flow alongside Frank Loughlin from Alliance Bernstein and Clive Williams from T.Rowe Price on the Morning of Day 2 at Equities Leaders Summit. Joe is also attending event to help him identify technology that he can adopt in his firm to enhance functional domains in concordance with current systems; in order to optimise the interoperability that takes a major role in such a large firm.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Joe.

Download The Latest Agenda

December 1st – Tackling Current Priorities

Monday, January 12th, 2015

12:00 Panel: Optimising the execution lifecycle: Key steps you can take to overcome liquidity challenges

Optimal liquidity-seeking: How to capitalize on customized metrics and advanced trading to navigate liquidity dead-zones
Dark strategies: Unveiling successful methods for executing trades in dark venues whilst minimising information leakage
Trading decision support: How recent advancements in technology to reach best liquidity in a wide range of multi-venue trading scenarios
Alpha alignment: Newer ways to align execution strategy with investment style and improve the broker/buyside workflow

December 2nd – Driving Future Profitability

Thursday, February 12th, 2015

09:05 All-Star Panel: Embracing buy side autonomy: How can you equip your trading function to take more control of order flow and improve your overall profitability

The relevance of the buy side desk- as more trades have the ability to be executed automatically with no intervention by a dealer, how should your trading function react to offer added value to the business?
Are differences between the buy and sell side blurring? How much ownership should the buy side have over their trade?
How can you take control of your trading processes to rapidly react to market opportunities and obstacles
How can the buy side capitalize on the capacity to reassess their trading strategy post-trade without conflict