People News Archives: 2021

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A press release tells us, "The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the appointment of William A. Birdthistle, currently a professor at Chicago-​Kent College of Law, as Director of the Division of Investment Management. The Division oversees regulatory policy for investment advisers and investment companies, including mutual funds."

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S&​P Global Fund Ratings is seeking a Ratings Analyst and an Associate Director. Click on the links above or contact Guyna Johnson for more information.

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Don Cooley has started as the new Head of US FIG Liquidity Sales at HSBC Global Asset Management (​USA). Cooley was formerly with SSGA.

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Fitch Ratings is seeking a Senior Analyst or Associate Director to join its Funds group.

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Citi Treasury & Trade Solutions, the group in charge of the online money fund trading portal, is seeking a Liquidity Solution Specialist Head - Director and a Liquidity Solution Specialist - VP.

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CastleOak Securities hired Kevin Ronan and Daniel Deighan to its Money Fund Solutions team. Both were formerly at BNY Mellon.

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Douglas Pagliaro is now with New York Community Bank. He was previously at UMB.

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HSBC appointed Manish Kohli ... as Head of Global Liquidity and Cash Management (​GLCM), reports PYMNTS.​com. He succeeds Diane Reyes, who is retiring.

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Sara Flour is a new Director, Institutional Liquidity Sales at RBC Global Asset Management (​U.​S.) Inc.

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Jay Mueller will retire from Wells Capital Management on ​Oct. 31, ​2021, we learned from a filing.

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Arjan Hess has joined Capitolis as Director of Business Development reporting to Shervyn von Hoerl.

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Laide Majiyagbe has been appointed Head of Financing and Liquidity "​assuming oversight of BNY Mellon'​s Securities Finance, Liquidity Services and Collateral Segregation (​including its Liquidity Direct) businesses," says a press release.

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Ted Neely has retired from Goldman Sachs. Jamie Puccinelli has assumed responsibility for the Chicago sales team (​and already ran the NY and SF sales teams).

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Robert Harder, Director - Short Duration Solutions & MMFs, is no longer with City National Rochdale, manager of the CNR Money Funds.

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BlackRock Cash Management appointed Gray Nelson new Global Head of Marketing, replacing Ellen Bockius (​who moved elsewhere at BlackRock). Robert Fischbach has taken on the role of Head of U.​S. Sales with Joe Ernst (​FI Sales) and Kevin Fitzgerald (​Corporate Sales) reporting to him.

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S&​P Global Fund Ratings is looking for an experienced analyst (​3-​8 years) with an understanding of fund management and credit. Contact guyna.​johnson@​spglobal.​com for details.

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Peter Thompson has joined minority and veteran-​owned CAVU Securities as Managing Director - Cash Management Sales.

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John Tobin was hired as CIO of Dreyfus Cash Investment Strategies to replace the retiring Patricia Larkin. Tobin was formerly at J.​P. Morgan Asset Management.