Brownstone Investment hires for investment grade push
Credit fund manager Brownstone Investment Group has announced that it has hired Sean Richter as a director responsible for trading investment grade corporate debt

Prytania's Perry leaves for Australia
London-based structured credit investment and advisory firm Prytania has announced that chief executive Malcolm Perry is leaving the firm

Aviva hires socially responsible credit manager
UK-based asset manager Aviva has announced that it has taken on Colin Purdie for the role of SRI (socially responsible investment) credit fund manager

Fund manager quits BlueBay, Financial Times reports
BlueBay Asset Management has lost key portfolio manager Gina Germano, the Financial Times reports

Aladdin hires global head of sales
Aladdin hires global head of sales

US court throws out VNU “insider trading” case, WSJ reports
The Wall Street Journal reports that a US court has dismissed a CDS insider trading case that the SEC brought against a hedge fund manager and a Deutsche Bank salesperson

CDS interdealer brokers fined for discussing fees
US regulator Finra announced that it has fined eight credit derivative interdealer brokers and suspended them temporarily from working in the industry

Burch quits Investec, reports Bloomberg
Bloomberg reports that Jeff Burch will leave Investec Asset Management, where he is co-head of credit, at the end of this month

Cantor announces structured credit hires
Cantor Fitzgerald has announced several structured credit trading and sales hires

CME's CMA hires CEO
Credit data specialist CMA has announced the appointment of a new chief executive

CPP seeks credit hedge fund investment manager
Canadian pension fund giant CPP Investment has posted a help wanted ad on its web site

RBS hires five for Americas credit sales and trading
Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that it has expanded its US flow credit sales and trading teams within its global banking and markets division in the Americas

CDO trading head Quintin moves to buy-side, reports Bloomberg
Bloomberg reports that Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s head of CDO trading, Donald Quintin, is moving to Lone Star Funds

BNP Paribas Investment Partners hires Fridson
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has announced that it has hired Martin Fridson as its global credit strategist within its credit investments business

Aviva hires convertibles fund manager
Aviva Investors today has announced the appointment of Justin Craib-Cox as a fund manager on the convertible bond team

PVE Capital expands business with hires
PVE Capital, a London-based macro credit fund manager that launched last October, has announced five additional hires to expand its business

Structured Portfolio Management adds four hires
Stamford-headquartered fixed income asset management firm Structured Portfolio Management has announced the addition of four recent hires to its investment team

Deutsche adds to recent hires with senior credit trader
Deutsche Bank has announced that Bob Keller will join as a managing director in global credit trading within the bank's global markets division