Pimco Hires Two New Executives

Global investment management firm Pimco has hired Gene Frieda as executive vice president and global strategist for the firm’s emerging markets and global strategies, and Yacov Arnopolin has joined the firm as executive vice president and emerging markets portfolio manager. Both will be based in Pimco ‘s London office.

Frieda joins Pimco from Moore Capital Management where he was a senior global strategist. Prior to joining Pimco, Arnopolin was a managing director and portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in New York.

“Gene and Yacov are two tremendous additions to our global macroeconomic and emerging markets portfolio management expertise, as their deep experience will bolster PIMCO’s investment process and tap the investment opportunities we see for clients in emerging markets,” Dan Ivascyn, managing director and Pimco’s group chief investment officer, said in a statement.

Founded in 1971, PIMCO is one of the world’s leading alternative investment managers. A unit of Frankfurt-based Allianz SE, the firm had more than $1.43 trillion in assets under management as of Dec. 31, 2015 and counts former central bankers Ben Bernanke and Jean-Claude Trichet among its advisors.