More CDO hires at Merrill

Merrill Lynch has hired Steve D'Agostino as a director in its CDO group from Credit Suisse First Boston. D'Agostino reports to group head and former boss Christopher Ricciardi, who joined Merrill from CSFB earlier this year. D'Agostino was head of the CDO analytics technology at CSFB and will reportedly assume a similar role at Merrill. Ralph Nacey and Cecilia Pan have also recently joined Ricciardi's CDO group at Merrill, both coming in as associates.