Pimco’s new deputy chief investment officer Virginie Maisonneuve is considering a new equities strategy which could include splitting out investment regions and making greater use of tail-risk hedging techniques to increase the firm’s alpha delivery to investors.

In a client "question and answer" session on the company's website today, Maisonneuve outlined options to develop the company's equities policy, with the suggestion that she would also put an additional focus on techniques such as "fundamental benchmarking".