Loose Change

Running with the baseball pitch at the annual LSTA conference, panelists came out wearing the jerseys of major league teams. The line up was as follows: Bram Smith, senior managing director at Bear Stearns (Oakland A's);  Mark Boyadjian, senior v.p. at Franklin Templeton Investments and head of Franklin advisers' floating rate debt group (Cardinals); Kevin Petrovcik, managing director at Invesco and head of its product management for the global CDO group (Yankees); Payson Swaffield, v.p. and co-portfolio manager at Eaton Vance (Red Sox) and Jack Yang, a partner at Highland Capital Management (Angels).