Moving Up

* Prudential Investment Management in Newark, N.J., has appointed Patricia L. Cook chief investment officer of its public fixed-income business. She will be responsible for day-to-day investment strategies and leading portfolio management teams in implementing fixed-income strategies for Prudential’s expanding institutional and retail business, as well as for its general account.

Ms. Cook, 48, was a managing director of alternative investments with Fischer Francis Trees & Watts in New York, where she previously headed mortgage-backed and structured-product investments, and domestic portfolios.

* State Street Global Advisors in Boston has appointed Diane M. Garnick, 34, global investment strategist. She will be a resource for the development of investment solutions spanning the risk/return spectrum. She will also assist in identifying new portfolio transition and construction techniques for SSgA’s worldwide institutional and high-net-worth client base, utilizing her knowledge in equity derivatives.

Ms. Garnick comes to SSgA from Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., where she was the director of equity derivatives strategy in Boston.

* WestAM in Houston has appointed Nigel Jenkins, 34, to lead its currency and global fixed-income team in London. He joins the company from Rothschild Asset Management in London, where he was an executive and director responsible for dollar-block and global-bond portfolios for 12 years, six of those as a director of the fixed-interest and currency group.

* Fidelity Investments in Boston has named James S. Morrow, 29, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Select Business Services and Outsourcing Portfolio. He has been following the broadcasting and cellular tower industries since joining Fidelity as an equity research analyst in 1999. From 1994 to 1997, he worked in Rochester, N.Y., as a research analyst following distressed debt for Chase Manhattan Corp. Also, Fidelity has named Douglas L. Nigen, 31, manager of the Fidelity Select Natural Gas Portfolio. He has been managing the Fidelity Select Automotive Portfolio since 1999. After serving as a summer intern in Fidelity’s equity research department in 1996, Mr. Nigen joined the company full time in 1997 as an equity research analyst following the specialty apparel industry.

Kelly S. Cardwell, 26, has been named portfolio manager of the Fidelity Select Automotive Portfolio, succeeding Mr. Nigen. Mr. Cardwell joined Fidelity’s equity research department in 1997, and recently he has been following advertising and publishing.

* New York Life Insurance Co. has named Patricia L. Barbari and Marci Landaas departmental vice presidents.

Ms. Barbari, 40, is responsible for strategic service operations in the individual policy services department.

She came to New York Life 12 years ago as a director in the corporate quality department, and in two years she was promoted to assistant vice president of that department. Beginning in 1991, she spent four years in the corporate audit department as an assistant general auditor responsible for managing audits of individual operations. She has been in individual policy services as an assistant vice president since 1995. Ms. Landaas, 44, works in the special-markets department within the company’s AARP division, based in Tampa, Fla. She is responsible for delivering the best technical solutions to enable the business to grow, while solving business problems efficiently and cost effectively. She began her career with New York Life over 24 years ago and joined the special-markets department in 1994 as part of the AARP startup operation. In 1997, she was made a corporate vice president.

* CheckFree Investment Services in Jersey City, N.J., has promoted Hilary Fiorella, 38, to senior vice president of marketing, from vice president. She replaces James “Jamie” Waller. Mr. Waller, 44, has accepted a director’s position with Citigroup Asset Management in New York, where he will work on new-business development.

An authority on separate accounts, Mr. Waller co-founded and served as president of the Wrap Industry Association, which later became the Money Management Institute.