Michael Pope is poised to join Angelo Gordon as head of credit trading, sources said. Pope has resigned from his position as a managing director on Goldman Sachs’ loan sales desk after 13 years at the firm, and is expected to start at the hedge fund in December.

Prior to Goldman, Pope worked at Bear Stearns and AMROC Investments. He began his career as a banking analyst at Lazard in London, sources noted.

Angelo Gordon is a multi-strategy hedge fund with roughly $25 billion of assets under management. – Staff reports