Steven Eisman was hired as head of the newly formed financial services...

Steven Eisman was hired as head of the newly formed financial services investment team at hedge fund manager FrontPoint Partners LLC, Greenwich, Conn. FrontPoint added the team to expand its coverage of subsectors within its equity long/short strategies, said Arthur Lev, general counsel. Mr. Eisman had been managing director and senior financial services analyst at Chilton Investment Co. Inc., New York. Added as analysts for the financial services subsector were Porter Collins, who had been a financial services, retail and consumer analyst at Chilton; Brad Berning, who had been a global insurance and consumer finance analyst at Viking Global Investors LLP, New York; and Vincent Daniel, a senior vice president at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc., New York. Jason Newberg, a spokesman for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, said Mr. Daniels hasn't been replaced.