Hedge fund titan Alan Howard and London Stock Exchange Group chief executive Xavier Rolet believe the biggest opportunities in today's market lie in combining different asset management strategies, they told attendees at a Financial News event.

In a rare public appearance, Howard, the co-founder of Europe's largest discretionary hedge fund Brevan Howard, told an audience at the Financial News 20th Anniversary Awards for Excellence in European Finance on May 26 that the industry needed to "break the barriers" between areas such as active and passive management.