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Fixed-Income

KKR Revamps Asset Management Debt Team

March 12, 2010 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has promoted four professionals in its asset management department to run the firm's special situations and leveraged credit strategies. The private equity firm appointed Jamie Weinstein and ...

Connecticut AG Sues Ratings Agencies

March 11, 2010 - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed suit against Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s for allegedly enabling the “worst economic downturn in the nation since The Great Depression” due to their issuance of “tainted” ...

Knight Libertas Hires Fixed-Income Duo

March 4, 2010 - Knight Libertas has added two veterans to lead the institutional broker-dealer’s bond research team. Charles Mounts joins as the Jersey City, N.J-based firm’s new managing director of fixed-income research, and ...

Stifel, Nicolaus Moves into Asset Management

March 3, 2010 - Stifel, Nicolaus & Company has further developed its “full-service capital markets platform” with the creation of an asset management and portfolio advisory division, the St. Louis, Mo.-based institutional brokerage and investment-banking ...

BTIG Expands Fixed-Income Sales

March 3, 2010 - BTIG has added two new sales executives to its fixed-income group, the New York-based broker/dealer said today, bringing the group to a total of 70 professionals. The firm hired Alexander Piper as a director in the fixed-income ...

Toronto Firms Combine to form Navina Asset Management

March 1, 2010 - With the acquisition of Navina Capital Corp.’s outstanding shares at the start of the year, Lawrence Asset Management announced today that both firms would become Navina Asset Management. While the release states the ...

Ohio Highway Patrol Launches Searches

March 1, 2010 - The $650 million Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System (HPRS) Board of Trustees approved two new searches totaling $65 million, Dan Weiss, retirement system executive director and CIO, told IMW. Collectively, $50 million will ...

Aviva Makes Additions to North America Team

February 26, 2010 - Aviva InvestorsSM North America (AINA) has announced two enhancements for its institutional business. Ron Shortenhaus has been named an investment sales manager at the Des Moines, ...

Asset Manager Enhances Bond Capabilities

February 25, 2010 - Investment Professionals, Inc. (IPI) continued to burgeon its bond division by promoting one and hiring two to assist newly appointed Fixed-Income Director John Sacchetti. On Jan. 12, Sacchetti, a former IPI financial consultant, ...

Collins Stewart Names Head for Capital Markets Group

February 16, 2010 - Henry Erbe has joined Collins Stewart where he will be responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of capital markets transactions managed by the firm’s U.S.-based operations, an announcement issued today ...

BTIG Adds to High Yield and Distressed Staff

February 8, 2010 - Broker dealer BTIG has added two traders and a sales executive to its high yield and distressed group, the firm said today. Chris Majak joins BTIG's high yield trading group. Majak was most recently a high yield and distressed ...

MBIA Restructures Money Management Arm

February 8, 2010 - MBIA announced today that subsidiary MBIA Asset Management has been restructured and renamed Cutwater Asset Management. MBIA established the asset management unit in 1991 to service institutional investors. It presently ...

TCW Cuts Fees to Appease Investors

February 4, 2010 - The TCW Group has elected to cut fees on two of its institutional distressed debt funds following conversations the Société Générale subsidiary recently had with limited partners and clients. According to a source familiar with ...

State Street Enters $313M Settlement

February 4, 2010 - State Street Corp. announced Thursday it has entered into settlements with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Massachusetts Attorney General and the Massachusetts Securities Division of the Office of the Secretary of State ...

TARP Manager Suspected of Bad Trades

February 1, 2010 - The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) is asking the Treasury Department to impose “conflict of interest walls” on Public-Private Investment Fund (PPIF) managers following its ...