John Longhurst Joins the Firm as Head of Emerging Markets Equity Research  LONDON, 12 October, 2011:  PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, has completed its emerging markets equity team with the hiring of five new investment professionals in its London, New York and Singapore offices. The new personnel are: John Longhurst, Senior Vice President and Head of Emerging Markets Equity Research, based in the London office; Richard Flax, Senior Vice President and Emerging Markets Equity Analyst, also based in the London office; Andrew Pyne, Senior Vice President and Emerging Markets Equity Product Manager based in the New York office; Raymond Goh, Equity Trader based in the Singapore office; and Laura Schlockman, Equity Product Manager based in the New York office.  “PIMCO has attracted extraordinary talent to our equity investment platform. These five new hires will enable us to strengthen further our emerging markets equities capabilities and enhance PIMCO’s ability to deliver value to our clients around the world,” said Neel Kashkari, Managing Director and Head of Global Equities. “We have built a tenured and cohesive emerging markets equity team that is well positioned to take advantage of opportunities presented by market volatility by leveraging PIMCO's macro insight, thorough bottom up stock selection and through deploying tail risk hedging,” said Masha Gordon, Executive Vice President and Head of Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio Management.