People News Archives: April, 2007
On Tuesday, Columbia Management, which manages $200 billion in "cash", will announce the hiring of former PNC and BlackRock 20+ year veteran Patrick Ford as managing director and senior portfolio manager for Cash Investments. (See Crane Data's News here; see Columbia's press release here.)
Veteran money market fund portfolio manager Sharon Pichler is retiring from Janus after 13 years. Eric Thorderson will continue to co-manage the cash funds, and Craig Jacobson joins him as a new co-manager.
Darlene Rasel, who recently retired from Deutsche Asset Management, has joined Moody's Investors Service as a part-time analyst.
Joanne Driscoll was promoted to Managing Director by Putnam Investments. She continues to head Putnam's money market group.
Dreyfus SVP & Relationship Manager Patricia Finckel has added institutional money market fund sales to her responsibilities. She reports to EVP and National Sales Manager Sue Ann Cormack.
Steven Crane (no relation) left as head of Interactive Data's Market Data and Pricing unit to CFO a non-financial company says Finextra.com.
Credit Suisse Asset Management has hired John Ricketts as Director and Relationship Manager for Cash Management on the West Coast.