Loomis Sayles & Company has hired a new director of credit research and credit strategies as it continues to expand its research team.
The $47.7 billion Virginia Retirement System is looking for a new chief investment officer, after current CIO Charles Grant announced that he doesn’t plan to seek reappointment after his contract expires in 2011. The search will begin immediately.
Les Hollis, ceo at San Francisco’s Bivium Capital Partners and Nancy Hollis, managing director and director of research have left the firm.
David Cooper, cio for the $8.5 billion Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund, has been tapped to be cio of the $22 billion Indiana State Teachers Retirement Fund’s investment office as well.
Man Investments has tapped Luke Ellis to head its multi-manager business after the expected acquisition of GLG Partners, where he runs a similar platform.
Chris Harms has joined Loomis Sayles in the newly-created position of product manager for the firm’s relative-return strategy.
A quickening game of musical chairs among pension plan cios of late represents a thawing in such activity--frozen during the financial crisis--and a gradual return to pre-recession turnover levels, say headhunters.
Wellington Management in Boston has suspended a bond trader in its London office after it came to suspect that the trader had bought securities based on non-public information.
Harrisburg, Penn.-based PFM Asset Management has brought Chris Blackwood in as a senior managing consultant in order to help build its business in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
Nick Harris, a senior partner at New York-based Lexington Partners, is slated to retire at the end of the year.
Lawrence Johansen, cio of the $4.9 billion New Hampshire Retirement System, has been nominated to serve on the board of directors for the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, or CCA.
Consulting firm R.V. Kuhns & Associates has hired is Inma Conde Goldman who will join the firm September 13 as a manager research consultant to work on non-U.S. equity research.
Henderson Global Investors, a U.K.-based asset manager, has picked Denise Pearman to be its director of institutional development for the Midwest.
Credit Suisse has tapped Anton Douglas, former global head and portfolio manager for the emerging markets financing group within the firm’s fixed-income business, to run an opportunistic emerging market credit fund.
Marketing consulting firm Margolis Advisory has brought on Janie Kass to work as a senior marketing consultant, said firm CEO and founder Jeff Margolis, because he had known Kass previously and thought she could add value to the firm.
New York-based investment banking firm Morgan Joseph has named J. Sherman Bartley, Todd Clark, Chesley Snider and Gregory Pizzitola to lead its institutional marketing team.
The $13.4 billion New Mexico State Investment Council appointed Doug Brown to be the council's new vice chairman. Brown, the dean of the University of New Mexico's business school and current council member, will replace Katherine Miller who accepted a job as county manager with Santa Fe County.
Detroit-based MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors has hired former judge A. Kay Stanfield Spinks as director of portfolio development and special counsel.
Governor Rick Perry has appointed Virginia Moore and Dennis Rice to the board of the $52 million Texas Emergency Services Retirement System as its newest trustees.
Commonfund has hired Carlton Byrd and Seyonne Kang as managing directors and Karen Morehouse as director of business development coordination and new market sales, to expand its hedge fund, private capital and outsourcing offerings to corporate and public pension funds.
Meredith Genova, former director with AllianceBernstein, has joined Stux Capital Management as director of marketing and client relations.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has appointed Michael Kushma as cio of its Global Fixed Income group, effective immediately.
Neuberger Berman has made several hires this year and plans to continue to recruit and expand opportunistically to maintain its global reach.
The CAD131.6 billion Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec will lose yet another executive when Philippe Ithurbide, executive committee member, leaves to join asset management firm Amundi, based in France, on July 15, according to representative Maxime Chagnon.
Tina Richardson, a financial services manager for the Dallas Housing/Community Services Department, has been elected to the board of the $2.6 billion Dallas (Texas) Employees Retirement System.
Jackie de Sanctis, who was a part of the consultant relations team at RCM Capital Management, has left the firm and joined Neuberger Berman in Los Angeles.
William Barnes, vice president and head of public funds at Janus Capital Group, has joined Neuberger Berman as a senior vice president in institutional distribution, focusing on public funds in western U.S.
Matt Waz, AXA Rosenberg’s director of consultant relationships, has resigned.
Greenwich, Conn.-based money manager Gramercy has tapped Jeffrey Grills and Gunter Heiland to launch its emerging markets U.S. dollar sovereign debt, corporate debt and local currency sovereign debt strategies.
The $5 billion San Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association welcomed its newest trustee, Gary Ovitt, at its July 1 meeting.
Pyramis Global Advisors, an asset management subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, has hired a director of research.
Doug Wynkoop, chief investment officer for the $2 billion Houston Municipal Employees Pension System, has left the fund and on July 19 will join the University of Florida Investment Corporation in Gainsville
Isela Rosales has joined Lyxor Asset Management, a subsidiary of Société Générale, as head of U.S. client service.
U.K.-based Henderson Global Investors has tapped Nancy McNally as director of consultant relations, North America. The position is new.
Nancy Goerdel has been named cio of the $16 billion Texas Municipal Retirement System.
Adam Tosh, cio at the $13.8 billion Kentucky Retirement Systems, will leave the job on July 16 for a position in private industry, according to the fund’s website.
Allan Toole, chief risk officer and head of product development, has left DoubleLine Capital and joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Tamara Doi Aoyagi has joined Lee Munder Capital Group as director of business development for the West Coast and Rocky Mountains regions.
The $96.7 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas is slated to choose one of three executive search firms to seek a replacement for outgoing Executive Director Ronnie Jung at the fund’s quarterly meeting June 17 through 18.
Manning & Napier Advisors has named Patrick Cunningham as ceo and Jeff Coons as president.
Chris Baggini has joined Turner Investment Partners as senior portfolio manager of the firm’s new long/short equity strategy and security analyst for the firm’s growth equity investing team.
AXA Investment Management, which owns a 75% equity interest in AXA Rosenberg, will purchase the remaining 25% from AXA Rosenberg co-founders Barr Rosenberg and Kenneth Reid.
Shawn Wischmeier has been hired as cio for the $68 billion North Carolina Retirement System.
Martin Levenson, who was head of Segal Advisors in 1969 when the investment consulting business was founded, passed away on May 26.
The CAD131.6 billion Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is in the midst of a search for a successor to Chief Financial Officer Ghislain Parent.
HedgeMark International, a portfolio construction and risk management firm focused on hedge funds, has tapped Thomas Colucci in a new position of managing director and global head of business development and client solutions.
Stanley Mavromates, chief investment officer for the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, said the fund will discuss a plan for replacing outgoing Executive Director Michael Travaglini at its June 1 meeting.
The $505 million El Paso City Employees Pension Fund has elected Rene Peña as the new vice-chairman of its 10-person board of trustees.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has hired Stanton Neilson and Beth Borrow to its Global Corporate Credit team in the wake of the departure of Steven Pawliczek, Vikki Lindstrom and Krishna Tyagarajan.
Philip Dever, a client and consultant relationship executive at Wellington Management Company, has left the firm and joined Lee Munder Capital Group as director of client service and relationship management.
The $3.1 billion North Dakota State Investment Board has issued an RFP for an executive search firm to hire a new executive director and cio to replace Steve Cochrane, who passed away last month.
Winslow Capital Management has hired Michael Palmer as president. He will also participate on the firm’s five-person operating committee.
John Haugh, pension strategist for pension and endowment research at Banc of America Securities, has joined Deutsche Bank.
Legal & General Investment Management America has promoted Brian Beargie to director of research effective immediately.
Chase Investment Counsel has lost almost half its assets under management after management departures and a run of bad performance.
Gabrielle Boyle, portfolio manager at Lazard Asset Management, who helped oversee Lazard’s portion of the Vanguard International Value Fund, has left the firm.
Scott Schroepfer, high-yield fixed-income sector manager at Columbia Management, has resigned.
Ameriprise Financial has named Colin Lundgren as head of fixed income and Todd White as head of alternative and absolute return investments at RiverSource Investments.
Ronnie Jung, executive director of the $98 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas, will leave his post on July 1, 2011.