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Guy De Froment will join Paribas Asset Management's London office July 1 as head of financial asset management and institutional asset management, a new position. He has been appointed to the executive committee. He had been a managing director at BZW Investment Management, where he has yet to be replaced.
Michael A. Mullaney has joined Boston Partners Asset Management as a partner and portfolio manager on the fixed-income team, a new position.
Previously, Mr. Mullaney was a vice president at Putnam Investments, where he served as co-director of quantitative fixed-income and manager of key account portfolios. His duties there have been assumed internally.
William M. Lyons was named president of American Century Investors. James Stowers III relinquished the title and will be concentrating on his duties as CEO and manager of the $20 billion Twentieth Century Ultra Fund. He also will concentrate on developing new investment strategies and tools, said a company spokesman. Mr. Lyons already serves as COO and executive vice president of American Century, positions he will retain