Mr Firoozye joins Nomura from Citadel Investment group where he was head of fixed income quantitative research. Prior to that, he held various senior roles in fixed income research and structuring at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Sanford Bernstein-Alliance and Lehman Brothers. Mr Firoozye will be responsible for articulating the firm’s interest rates strategy and directing the team’s quantitative and relative value research.
Ms Wyman joins Nomura from Citigroup where she most recently served as a senior economist for the economic and political strategies group in New York. Prior to that, she spent seven years in London, as the head of emerging markets research for the CEEMEA region. Ann’s team will be responsible for formulating the firm’s economic forecasts for emerging market countries and translating those views into fixed income trade ideas.
The macro strategy research team will be lead by Jim McCormick, head of fixed income research of EMEA and provide advice on cross-market portfolio allocation to Nomura’s senior clients and building an analytical toolkit for cross-asset monitoring and trading. Further, the team will work to synthesise the views of the firm’s various product strategy teams and will identify and provide advice on trading major tail risks to Nomura and market modal views.
Mr McCormick, said: “Nomura is committed to being the best-in-class provider of macro research and these steps are the first of many to strengthen our position in the sector. A key element of the post-crisis environment is a renewed focus on macro analysis and Nomura is perfectly positioned to be the leading provider of macro research in EMEA.”
