UPDATE 2-MOVES-Merk, State Street Global, Alliance

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July 1 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Tuesday. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.

MERK INVESTMENTS LLC - Merk Investments LLC, which manages the Merk Hard Currency Fund, has hired William Poole, a former top U.S. central bank official, as its senior economic adviser. Poole, a former economics professor at Brown University, was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis until March 2008.

PIMCO

The investment management firm announced two new appointments to its European Remarketing team. Gian Luca Giurlani joins PIMCO as Senior Vice President European Institutional Remarketing and Maddalena Nocera as Institutional Remarketing Account Manager. Both will be based in London.

Gian Luca joins PIMCO from Crosby Forsyth where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of Sales and Distribution.

Maddalena re-joins PIMCO from BNY Mellon Asset Management in London where she covered the Italian market as an account manager.

SCHRODERS PLC

A global asset management company with $259.6 billion under management announced that Maha Soueissy will join Schroders as Middle East Equity Analyst and will be based in its Dubai office.