Career moves

John Pellici and Yaffa Rattner bring deep public finance experience to Hilltop.

Most recently, he was a principal investment officer and head of global equity at the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, or LACERA.

Kyle Hemminger joined Cain Brothers this month in Columbus, Ohio.

The board will have 15 members for its fiscal year starting Oct. 1.

A compendium of changes in the municipal industry.

The acting New York City Transit president was in line for a board chairmanship had state lawmakers approved Gov. Andrew Cuomo's measure to split the authority's top positions.

Michael Pagano, a "dean" of government finance with a national reputation, will hand the mantle as director of the university's Government Finance Research Center next month to Deborah Carroll.

SWS Capital Management, which manages the Clear Vision Impact Fund, has hired a Detroit-based analyst/investor.

Brian Egan will take up the mantle of being the primary voice for bond lawyers in Washington.

Locke Lord's Texas public finance team continues to expand with the addition of Arnold Cantu from Norton Rose Fulbright.