Sector developments and company hires

PCMA welcomes Thien Nguyen to its senior leadership and investment team as the firm bolsters its expertise in super prime, private client credit. Nguyen will focus on establishing new and managing existing investment strategies and capital market solutions across secondary market trading, structured credit, syndication, and credit risk exposure across the firm’s enterprises. Nguyen joins PCMA as md for capital markets from Cerberus, where he led on the development of its fixed income mortgage investment and valuation platform as vp of RMBS and ABS investment.

In other news…

EMEA

Aegon Asset Management has named Frank Meijer global head of alternative fixed income and structured finance, based in Amsterdam. Meijer was previously European head of alternative and private fixed income at the firm, which he joined in October 2005 as a structured investments analyst. Before that, he worked in credit risk modelling at ABN AMRO.

North America

BTIG has announced a new hire as it works to expand its leveraged loan capabilities for both its corporate and institutional clients. Gil Tollinchi joins the firm’s credit team as md, with hopes his 20 years of experience can assist the firm in strengthening its product offering to clients. Tollinchi joins the BTIG fixed income credit unit, having served as a senior portfolio manager at Pretium Partners, and most recently working as an independent financial services consultant and investor.