{"id":82025,"date":"2019-09-12T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/mobilite\/pimco-hires-nick-granger-as-managing-director-and-portfolio-manager-quantitative-analytics\/"},"modified":"2019-09-12T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:37:00","slug":"pimco-hires-nick-granger-as-managing-director-and-portfolio-manager-quantitative-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/asset-management\/mobilite\/pimco-hires-nick-granger-as-managing-director-and-portfolio-manager-quantitative-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"PIMCO Hires Nick Granger as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Quantitative Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PIMCO, one of the world\u2019s premier fixed<br \/>\nincome investment managers, has hired Nick Granger as Managing Director and Portfolio<br \/>\nManager, Quantitative Analytics. Mr. Granger will be based in Newport Beach and will report to<br \/>\nMihir Worah, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer \u2013 Asset Allocation and Real<br \/>\nReturn. He will join PIMCO in the first quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In this role, Mr. Granger will lead PIMCO\u2019s quantitative team and work with the firm\u2019s 255-plus<br \/>\nportfolio managers. He will focus on enhancing PIMCO\u2019s use of quant strategies and will also<br \/>\nmanage portfolios and meet with clients. PIMCO has many years of expertise in quantitative<br \/>\nstrategies and now employs more than 100 quantitative analysts, data scientists and<br \/>\nquantitative portfolio managers.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are thrilled that Nick brings to PIMCO extensive experience in developing and managing<br \/>\nquantitative strategies across asset classes and styles, which will enable us to build on our deep<br \/>\nexpertise in quant,\u201d<\/em> said Dan Ivascyn, PIMCO\u2019s Group Chief Investment Officer. <em>\u201cPIMCO has<br \/>\nalready invested significant resources in quantitative analytics and strategies and aims to be at<br \/>\nthe cutting edge of quant, statistical analysis and technology,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cQuantitative techniques are important contributors to PIMCO\u2019s operational and execution<br \/>\nefficiency, risk management and investment process as the need for data and technology is<br \/>\nconstantly growing,\u201d<\/em> said Emmanuel Roman, PIMCO\u2019s Chief Executive Officer. <em>\u201cHaving worked<br \/>\nwith Nick for many years already, I can personally attest to the deep expertise and insight he<br \/>\nwill bring to PIMCO and our clients.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Granger joins PIMCO from Man Group in the U.K., where he was Chief Investment Officer of<br \/>\nMan AHL, and a member of the Man Group Executive Committee. He was Portfolio Manager of<br \/>\nMan AHL\u2019s flagship systematic multi-strategy program and was previously Co-Head of Research<br \/>\nand Deputy CIO of Man AHL. He joined Man AHL in 2008, initially to lead the firm\u2019s systematic<br \/>\nvolatility trading strategies and he later oversaw cross asset-class research across the group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nick Granger will be a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Quantitative Analytics at<br \/>\nPIMCO when he joins in the first quarter of 2020. He previously worked at Man Group in the U.K., where he was Chief Investment Officer of Man AHL, and a member of the Man Group<br \/>\nExecutive Committee. He was Portfolio Manager of Man AHL\u2019s flagship systematic multistrategy program and was previously Co-Head of Research and Deputy CIO of Man AHL. Mr.<br \/>\nGranger joined Man AHL in 2008, initially to lead the firm\u2019s systematic volatility trading<br \/>\nstrategies and he later oversaw cross asset-class research across the group. Prior to Man Group,<br \/>\nhe was an equity derivatives strategist at JP Morgan. He has a First Class Degree in Mathematics<br \/>\nfrom Oxford University and a PhD in Mathematical Logic from the University of Manchester. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Granger will lead PIMCO\u2019s quantitative team and focus on enhancing the<br \/>\nfirm\u2019s use of quant strategies, building on PIMCO\u2019s deep resources and years of<br \/>\nexpertise in this area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":82023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1479],"tags":[1655,1651,2044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}