Sector: Debt / Fixed Income

Job wrap: Going, going, gone

There were a lot of departures in the world of European finance last week, some more deliberate than others. It emerged that Fox-Pitt, Kelton, the financial services specialist investment bank, had seen the back of four senior corporate financiers. John Wells, London global of corporate finance, and Mark Davidson, London head of corporate finance for [...]

Job wrap: Heavyweight moves in investment banking

There was no shortage of hiring announcements last week, where the weightiest fell in the world of investment banking. Lazard hired Riccardo Pavoncelli, a veteran Morgan Stanley banker, as head of European cross-border transactions. Pavoncelli, who was head of banking in Italy and a co-head of its European media and telecom advisory group, will be [...]

Job wrap: Hiring surge in equity derivatives

There was a rush of equity derivatives hiring last week as Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Bank of America and ABN Amro added to their teams. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein hired four people for equity derivatives. Patrick Sciamma joined from Goldman Sachs as a managing director and head of trading in exotic equity derivatives. Olivier Charhon joined from [...]

Job Wrap: Post-holiday hiring extravaganza

After a lull during the summer, last week saw a flood of hiring announcements in everything from fixed income to private equity. Fixed income: Calyon hires new head of high yield debt trading Calyon hired Andrei Korolev from BNP Paribas as head of high-yield debt trading with responsibility for trading cash bonds and credit derivatives. [...]

Turning to an Old Employer for a New Job

It may make you a comeback kid, but returning to work somewhere you’ve worked before offers several obvious advantages: there are familiar faces, you know how things are done, and it doesn’t take you more than twenty minutes to locate the restroom and staff restaurants. The highest profile returnee of recent times is John Mack, [...]

Job Wrap: Chambers quits Man in search of new opportunities

While most people were relaxing somewhere hot, the fund management sector was the venue for numerous hires and departures last week. Top of the bill was the revelation that the chief executive of Man Investments planned to quit at the end of August. Chris Chambers, chief executive of the hedge fund business and a former [...]