TempTrader provides experienced interim trading and execution professionals to asset managers and asset owners whenever additional desk capacity is required.

We support firms that want to retain in-house trading while dealing with short or medium term absences such as holiday cover, illness, parental leave, transition periods between hires, or temporary increases in workload. Our traders operate inside your existing trading function, using your systems, processes and controls.

TempTrader is not outsourced trading. It is practical desk cover designed to preserve continuity and control when resourcing becomes stretched.

Most in-house trading desks today are run lean. That is sensible from a cost perspective, but it can quickly create a single point of failure if a trader is unexpectedly unavailable. When that happens, firms are often forced into sub optimal reactive decisions, whether that is over-stretching remaining staff or considering outsourcing by default.

TempTrader exists to give firms an alternative.

We contract with you to deliver experienced buy-side trading professionals who can integrate quickly into your environment and operate to your firm’s standards.

Regulatory approvals, permissions and registrations required can be managed a variety of ways, and we work with firms to produce a solution which works for you and fits in with your own compliance framework.

Where possible, engagements are planned in advance to allow for a controlled handover. In genuine emergency situations, we can help identify suitable interim traders at very short notice.

TempTrader professionals sit within your organisation, aligned to your investment process, your compliance framework and your execution approach. Culturally and operationally, this matters because they work as part of your desk, not as an external trading provider.

By using TempTrader, firms can run their in-house trading function at a prudently tight level of staffing while still being able to demonstrate a credible and proportionate contingency plan for dealing desk resilience.

That contingency is increasingly important. Regulators, boards and prospective investors routinely focus on operational resilience and key person risk during due diligence. Having a clear, pre-agreed approach to interim trading cover provides practical reassurance without forcing a permanent increase in headcount or a move to outsourced trading.