SG hires four credit research analysts

Société Générale is strengthening its European credit research unit with the addition of four new recruits.

Roberto Pozzi and Richard Thomas will be based in London, while Olivier Monnoyeur and David Benhamou will work from the French bank’s headquarters in La Défense, Paris. All four will report to Benoît Hubaud, head of credit research. Hubaud hopes they will boost SG’s quantitative research capabilities.

Pozzi will join SG as senior credit analyst covering the industrial sector. In his previous role at Nomura, he covered corporate credits and prior to that held positions at Commerzbank, Mediobanca, Banca Commerciale Italiana and Credit Suisse First Boston.

Thomas will also join as senior credit analyst, covering financial institutions. He has worked for ABN Amro in London since 1999 - in the past two years as an equity analyst focusing on Italian and German banks. Before this, he was director of the financial institutions practice at Standard & Poor’s.

Monnoyeur will cover the consumer sector in his role as credit analyst, having moved from L’Agefi, a daily financial newspaper based in Paris, where he covered the credit markets since joining in 2002.

Benhamou, 22, will join as quantitative analyst, having graduated with a focus on financial mathematics at Stanford University and École Polytechnique, an engineering Grande École just outside Paris.