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Fixed-Income

LASERS Selects Marathon for the Long Haul

September 2, 2010 - The roughly $7 billion Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System (LASERS) Board of Trustees decided last week to award Marathon Asset Management a nearly $250 million mortgage-backed securities mandate, system CIO Bobby ...

Ft. Lauderdale Police & Fire Weigh In on Bond Changes

August 27, 2010 - The nearly $422 million Ft. Lauderdale Police & Fire Retirement System Board of Trustees is currently mulling over making a few passive, active and opportunistic changes to its roughly $116.7 million fixed-income portfolio. At its meeting last month ...

Loomis Names Product Manager for Relative Return

August 24, 2010 - Chris Harms has joined the fixed-income group at Loomis, Sayles & Company as a product manager for the relative return team, the Boston-based firm has announced. The relative return team is responsible for the core ...

RBC Launches Emerging Markets Bond Fund

August 23, 2010 - RBC Global Asset Management launched an emerging markets bond fund that can invest in junk bonds, the Toronto-based asset manager confirmed Monday. The bond fund, RBC Emerging Markets Bond Fund, is available to institutional ...

Kentucky Completes Liability Study, Shifts Allocations

August 20, 2010 - The nearly $12.9 billion Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) approved changes to its asset allocation targets yesterday that will effectively “reduce risk” for the Frankfort-based employees retirement plan, Mike Burnside, KRS executive director ...

Nebraska Investment Council Could Go Global

August 19, 2010 - While the asset studies conducted by the $13.6 billion Nebraska Investment Council (NIC) on the state’s defined benefit and cash balance benefit plans have left allocation targets unscathed, talks have now moved to exploring the addition ...

Boulder Foundation Scours Local Waters for Investment Services

August 16, 2010 - The Community Foundation serving Boulder County, Colo. is looking for a new investment management firm to advise nearly $17 million of its assets moving forward. The search, which was launched at the end of last month ...

Guggenheim Hits Summit For High Yield

August 16, 2010 - Mark Field and John Agnew, Summit Securities Group co-founders, have brought nine members from the New York-based institutional and corporate broker dealer’s high yield group with them to their new gig at Guggenheim Securities. The subsidiary ...

SWIB Plans for Future of Bond Portfolio

August 6, 2010 - As the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) continues a push toward risk aversion, its staff laid out new goals for the fixed-income portfolio that would look to find additional alpha minus any apparent investment hazard. At ...

BNP Names Head of Fixed-Income Solutions, Americas

August 5, 2010 - BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking has appointed Matt Salvner as head of fixed-income solutions for the Americas, the firm announced today. Salvner joins from Morgan Stanley, where he was head of capital markets products and ...

Deerfield Snags Pimco High Yield Trader

August 5, 2010 - Deerfield Capital hired a former PIMCO high yield bond trader as part of an effort to launch new products and grow its trading capabilities, the Chicago-based asset manager said Wednesday. The firm said it hired Mitch Wilner ...

Maxim Group Continues Institutional Expansion

August 4, 2010 - Maxim Group has named four industry veterans to assist the New York-based investment banking firm as it builds out its institutional sales and trading group...

BlackRock Promotes Rieder

August 4, 2010 - In an effort to improve its fixed-income offerings, BlackRock promoted Rick Rieder to CIO of fixed-income, fundamental portfolios...

BNY Mellon Names Arledge to Lead Asset Management Arm

August 4, 2010 - BNY Mellon Asset Management has tapped Curtis Arledge, the former CIO of fixed-income at BlackRock, to take the helm and lead its business on a permanent basis.

BNY Mellon Appoints Structured Finance Heads

August 3, 2010 - BNY Mellon Corporate Trust has named Richard Stanley and Debra Baker to oversee its structured finance business lines, the firm announced today. Stanley, with more than 25 years of experience in several different roles within the ...