Bear names Abrahams head of liquid product strategy

Bear Stearnshas named Senior Managing Director Steve Abrahams as head of global liquid product strategies. In this new position, Abrahamswill coordinate all of the firm's rate markets research, focusing specifically on expanding delivery to Europe and Asia. He will also continue his role guiding MBS and agency CMO research. Since joining the firm in 2001, Abrahams has headed the agency CMO strategy team and helped to launch Bear's weekly publication Across the Curve in Rates and Structured Products in 2003. Recently, Abrahams has played an interim role trading agency CMO derivatives.