BGI hires new head of US fixed income

Barclays Global Investors has hired Marie Chandoha as head of US fixed income.

She replaces Brian Zalaznick, who becomes global head of fixed-income structuring, which includes oversight of the firm’s CDO business.

Chandoha joins BGI in San Francisco from Wells Capital Management where she was co-head and senior portfolio manager of the Montgomery fixed-income division. She has also worked as a senior bond strategist at Goldman Sachs and in the fixed-income research group of Credit Suisse First