David Daglio was named senior vice president and head of The Boston...

David Daglio was named senior vice president and head of The Boston Co. Asset Management's U.S. small-cap and midcap value investment team, said Joseph Ailinger, spokesman. He had been a portfolio manager for the firm's premier value, select value and small-cap opportunity institutional strategies. Mr. Daglio replaces Peter Higgins, who will leave the firm Aug. 31 to pursue other professional opportunities. Mr. Daglio will also become lead manager of the Dreyfus Small Company Value and the Dreyfus Mid Cap Value Fund, which he ran with Mr. Higgins. He will remain lead manager on a third fund, the Dreyfus Premier Mid Cap Value Fund.

Gita R. Rao was named a quantitative portfolio manager at MFS Institutional Advisors, said John Reilly, spokesman. The position is new. Ms. Rao will oversee the management of the firm's global quantitative portfolios and lead its research into international stock selection models. Ms. Rao was an associate partner, global equity portfolio manager and director of quantitative research at Wellington Management. Lisa D. Finkel, a spokeswoman for Wellington, couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

Alex Ineichen will move to UBS Global Asset Management's alternative and quantitative investments group in October to serve in a "senior research capacity" for the specialist hedge fund unit, according to a company news release. Mr. Ineichen is head of alternative investment strategies at UBS Investment Research, where he has led hedge fund research for the investment bank since 2000. Mr. Ineichen will report to Mike Welch, CIO and head of alternative investment solutions at A&Q.