Newport Beach, Ca., USA - January 30, 2014, Newport Beach, Ca., USA - Pimco, an investment management firm, announced four additional deputy chief investment officers, a senior generalist portfolio manager hire and two departures.
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Portfolio Management leadership appointments:
Mark Kiesel, Deputy Chief Investment Officer
Mr. Kiesel is a Managing Director in the Newport Beach office, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, generalist portfolio manager, global head of the corporate bond portfolio management group and a senior member of the investment strategy and portfolio management group. Morningstar named him Fixed Income Fund Manager of the Year in 2012 and a finalist in 2010. He has written extensively on the topic of global credit markets, founded the firm’s Global Credit Perspectives publication and regularly appears in the financial media.
He joined PIMCO in 1996 and previously served as PIMCO's head of equity derivatives and as a senior credit analyst.
Mr. Kiesel has 21 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
Ms. Maisonneuve is a Managing Director in the London office, Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Global Head of Equities Portfolio Management. She has more than 25-years of equity investing experience and most recently was Head of Global and International Equities with Schroders Plc, where she spent 9 years in their London office as an equity portfolio manager and team leader.
She also served as a Director of Schroder Investment Management North America Inc. Previously, she spent 6-years at Clay Finlay in New York City as Co-Chief Investment Officer, Director and a member of the Executive Committee and Investment Policy Committee.
Earlier in her career she was an equity portfolio manager with a focus on Asian portfolios with State Street Research and Management. She also held equity portfolio management roles with Batterymarch Financial Management and Martin Currie, in Scotland.
Mr. Mather is a Managing Director in the Newport Beach office, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, and Head of Global Portfolio Management. Previously, he led portfolio management in Europe, managed euro and pan-European portfolios and worked closely with many Allianz-related companies. He also served as a managing director of Allianz Global Investors KAG. He was a finalist for Morningstar Fixed Income Manager of the Year (US) in 2011.
Prior to these roles, Mr. Mather co-headed PIMCO's mortgage- and asset-backed securities team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 1998, he was a fixed income trader specializing in mortgage-backed securities at Goldman Sachs in New York.
He has 19 years of investment experience and holds a master's degree in engineering, as well as undergraduate degrees, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mihir Worah, Deputy Chief Investment Officer
Mr. Worah is a Managing Director in the Newport Beach office, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager, and Head of the Real Return Portfolio Management team. He was previously a member of the analytics team and worked on real and nominal term structure modeling and options pricing.
Prior to joining PIMCO in 2001, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where he built models to explain the difference between matter and anti-matter. In 2012 he co-authored "Intelligent Commodity Indexing," published by McGraw-Hill.
He has 12 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago.
Senior Portfolio Management hire:
In addition to these senior appointments, Sudi Mariappa will re-join PIMCO as a Managing Director and Generalist Portfolio Manager, based in the Newport Beach office. Mr. Mariappa will return to PIMCO from GLG where he has served since 2012 co-managing that firm’s absolute return fixed income offering. He was previously at PIMCO from 2000-2011 as a Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Senior Advisor. ■