Prudential Fixed Income names Yves Trinquet to risk management team

Prudential Fixed Income names Yves Trinquet to risk management team

Trinquet to lead Prudential Fixed Income's quantitative team

NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Prudential Fixed Income has named Yves Trinquet a managing director, and head of quantitative research, the company announced today. He has also been named co-head of risk management. Prudential Fixed Income is an asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYS: PRU) .

Trinquet will oversee the development of proprietary yield curve, credit and risk models, along with all aspects of portfolio risk management including risk budgeting, tracking and analysis for portfolios, and for performance analysis, attribution, data integrity and pricing.

Trinquet will also serve as co-head of risk management alongside Martin Lawlor, Prudential Fixed Income's current managing director and head of risk management. He will eventually replace Lawlor, who has announced plans to retire in 2014. Lawlor joined Prudential in 1976.

"I'm delighted that Yves has joined the quantitative andrisk management teams," said James Sullivan, head of Prudential Fixed Income. "His experience and knowledge of our business serves to strengthen our quantitative research and risk management investment process as we serve our clients around the world."

Trinquet was most recently a senior portfolio manager at Prudential Fixed Income before leaving the company to spend time with family and serve as a consultant. He has also been head of the Quantitative Research Team for 10 years, where he was instrumental in developing the firm's relative value hedge platform. He and his team also researched and developed most of the quantitative models and analytical tools currently used to manage Prudential Fixed Income's portfolios. Earlier, he managed global fixed income portfolios and guaranteed investment contracts for institutional and general account clients. Before joining Prudential in 1989, he was an engineer in underwater robotics for Societe ECA, a global engineering firm.

Trinquet received an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Metiers in Paris and an MBA from Columbia University.

Prudential Fixed Income, with $400 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2013, offers institutional investors needs-based solutions across all fixed income markets, with a focus on credit strategies and liability-driven investing. Prudential Fixed Income has portfolio management and research teams in Newark, N.J.; London and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.prudentialfixedincome.com.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYS: PRU) , a financial services leader with approximately $1.06 trillion of assets under management as of March 31, 2013, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Prudential's diverse and talented employees are committed to helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth through a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds and investment management. In the U.S., Prudential's iconic Rock symbol has stood for strength, stability, expertise and innovation for more than a century. For more information, please visit http://www.news.prudential.com/.

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