PIMCO expands team

10 Nov 2011
PIMCO, global investment management firm, has expanded its portfolio management analytics team with the appointment of three new investment professionals in its New York and London offices.  

Vasant Naik has been appointed as the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Empirical Research and Riccardo Rebonato as Executive Vice President and Head of Rates and FX Analysis. Both will be based in the London office.

Stefano Risa has been appointed as Executive Vice President and Head of Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Analytics and will be based in the New York office.

They will report to Ravi Mattu, Managing Director and Head of Analytics.

“These new senior personnel bring experience and knowledge that will be a great asset in the continued development of PIMCO’s sophisticated integrated analytics platform,” said Mattu. "We are committed to building a world class quantitative valuation and risk management framework to complement our outstanding macro driven investment process."