Specialist US fixed income manager PIMCO has appointed Ilan Heimann and Ryan Blute as product managers in the European Product Management Group. Both will be based in London and report to the group’s head Craig Dawson. Mr Heimann joins as a senior vice president and product manager responsible for structured products at the beginning of August. He was previously an executive director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Mr Blute is a vice president and product manager responsible for European credit products. He relocated to London from PIMCO’s headquarters in Newport Beach at the beginning of August. He joined PIMCO in 2000 and has nine years of investment experience, including high yield and investment grade corporate bond research. Before joining PIMCO, he was a senior accountant at Deloitte & Touche.