Victor Mostrowski was hired as vice president and portfolio manager in the international fixed-income portfolio management team at Delaware Investments, and Brian Hamlet was named vice president and senior corporate bond trader, confirmed spokeswoman Ayele Ajavon. Mr. Mostrowski was a senior portfolio manager in global fixed income at HSBC Halbis Partners (USA); HSBC spokesman Donal McCarthy couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. Mr. Hamlet was a vice president at Lehman Brothers Holdings, responsible for making markets in the consumer industrial sector as well as trading cash bonds and credit derivatives for Lehman’s proprietary books.
Delaware has hired 19 fixed-income investment professionals over the past few months to add to its existing team, which manages $100 billion in assets. The firm is still in talks with Logan Circle Partners, a money management firm launched recently by former Delaware CEO Jude Driscoll, about “a possible transaction involving certain members of the taxable fixed-income team and related institutional business,” according to a May 23 announcement. Delaware spokeswoman Laurel O’Brien said the 19 people hired in recent months shouldn’t be seen as replacements for a potential exodus of managers to Logan Circle.
Reached by telephone, Mr. Driscoll would only confirm continuing “friendly conversations” between Logan Circle and Delaware.
