NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Feb. 22, 2001 (PRIMEZONE) - PIMCO, one of the nation's leading fixed-income fund-management companies, is pleased to announce the hiring of Shannon Bass as Senior Vice President and portfolio manager on its high-grade corporate desk.
Bass, most recently a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers in New York, will join PIMCO later this month.
Bass' hiring is "another building block in PIMCO's strategy to add depth, breadth and have unrivaled expertise to all our specialty areas," said Bill Powers, PIMCO Managing Director. "Mr. Bass complements a long list of experienced and talented PIMCO professionals and specifically demonstrates PIMCO's commitment to the credit area."
In 1998 and 1999, working in Lehman Brothers' San Francisco office, Mr. Bass was ranked as the company's top corporate bond salesman. From 1996 through 2000, he led the San Francisco high-grade sales team to a more than fourfold increase in production.
At PIMCO, Bass will work alongside veteran PIMCO trader Mark Kiesel, supplementing the company's strength in corporate trading, Powers said.
In addition to Lehman Brothers, Bass served as a Vice President at JP Morgan in San Francisco and as an associate at the firm's New York office. He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of California at San Diego and a Masters in Business Administration from New York University's Stern School of Business.
Founded in 1971 and based in Newport Beach, California, PIMCO has more than $220 billion in fixed-income assets under management. The company is majority owned by Munich-based Allianz Group, a leading global insurance company with over $600 billion in assets and represented in 70 countries around the globe.
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