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  • FBR Investment Management has launched a fixed-income group whose first initiative will be to manage collateralized debt obligations.
  • CirclePoint Asset Management, a subsidiary of Japanese trading company Marubeni, has set up shop as a collateralized debt obligation manager.
  • Corey Bresnahan will join Mizuho Corporate Bank in asset-backed securities origination.
  • CirclePoint Asset Management plans to launch its first collateralized debt obligation by mid-May.
  • Baker & McKenzie is looking to ramp up its New York securitization practice significantly within the next 12 months by hiring two partners and four associates.
  • Real estate securities-focused hedge fund Woodbourne Investment Management plans to open a Tokyo office in the next couple of months.
  • Deutsche Bank has hired Afif Baccouche as senior correlation trader in the firm’s credit trading group in London.
  • Nord/LB Covered Finance Bank, a subsidiary of Nord/LB focused on public sector financing, is planning the first covered bond issuances from its program toward the end of April.
  • Citigroup mortgage trader Shujaat Islam has shifted over to Citi Alternative Investments as a senior portfolio manager. He is responsible for the collateralized mortgage obligation strategy within a multi-strategy hedge fund and reports to Reaz Islam, head of the structured credit team, according to an official close to the firm. The senior portfolio manager declined comment and the group head could not comment by press time. Former mortgage trader Islam joined Citi from Morgan Stanley in 2005.