People Moves
Pioneer Hires New Manager for Growth Fund
US-based Pioneer Investments has hired Brian Stack as portfolio
manager of Pioneer Growth Opportunities Fund and Pioneer Growth
Opportunities VCT (venture capital trust) Portfolio. He will
be based in the
Boston office in charge of a three-person US Small Cap Growth
team supported by Pioneer Investments’ global research staff,
which provides fundamental and quantitative research.
Mr Stack worked most recently at Long Trail Investment Management, a small- and mid-cap equity hedge fund firm which he co-founded and where he served as portfolio manager and analyst from 2005 to 2007.
The funds’ previous co-managers were Peter Wiley and Diego Franzin. Mr Wiley remains a member of the team and portfolio manager of the Pioneer Small Cap Value fund. Mr Franzin was recently promoted to head of Global Quantitative Research.
