Pimco, a US-based investment management firm, has appointed Maria Gordon as an executive vice president and emerging market equity portfolio manager. She will join in October in the London office and will lead its emerging markets equity team.
Ms Gordon has over 12 years of investment management experience. Prior to joining Pimco, she was a managing director, portfolio manager and head of global emerging markets equity strategy at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Earlier in her career, she was a research analyst covering telecom, consumer and resource stocks in EMEA and LATAM regions for the emerging markets equity strategy at Goldman Sachs.
PIMCO also announced that it has hired recently five other senior equity investment professionals as part of the ongoing build-out of its active equity platform.
Neel Kashkari, managing director and head of new investment initiatives at Pimco, said: “Masha Gordon is an outstanding portfolio manager and we are delighted to have her lead our EM equity team. Pimco plans to launch several active equity strategies in the next couple of years. Following the successful launch of Pimco Pathfinder, a deep value strategy, emerging markets will be our next active equity strategy.
“Looking ahead to the remainder of 2010 and 2011, Pimco will continue to recruit top notch talent as we build out a Pimco-quality active equity platform to serve our clients around the world.”