Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has expanded its fixed income capabilities in Europe and appointed four new senior members.
Heather DeGarmo, John Maskell, Allan Lane, and Sebastien Guglietta will all report to Tim Webb, head of Fixed Income Advanced Active Strategies at BGI.
DeGarmo has joined BGI as the portfolio manager for the European long/short credit fund. She will be working with models and credit analysts to identify investment opportunities in the European crossover and high yield markets. DeGarmo previously worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she was responsible for managing the corporate portion of their global and European portfolios.
Maskell is the new head of Interest Rates Strategies and will head up a team of five market specialists and will be responsible for leading the interest rates investment activities across the existing range of funds. Prior to BGI, Maskell worked for Barclays Capital where he was head of European Rates Strategy.
Lane has joined BGI as the European head of the Fixed Income Investment Technology & Analytics team. He is responsible for building the next generation of a trading platform that will be used to identify relative value and trading opportunities within interest rate and credit derivatives. Lane previously worked for Royal Bank of Scotland as the Global head of Quantitative Research.
Guglietta has joined as a senior portfolio manager and is responsible for interest rate and volatility strategies. Prior to joining BGI, Guglietta worked for BAREP Asset Management as Head of a Quantitative Arbitrage Hedge Fund.
“The expansion will support both BGI’s existing active strategies and the development of new long/short fixed income products to meet the increasing demand from institutional investors for hedge funds,” according to a press release from the company.