Investors should not allow the headlines surrounding the US fiscal cliff to overshadow positive news playing out in the country’s consumer sector and housing market, Barings Asset Management and M&G agree.
Nicholas Williams added to the £342.9m Baring Europe Select Trust’s industrials and financials allocations after the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) recent policy moves.
Barings has appointed Hyung Jin Lee as its new head of Asian equities.
Barings plans to launch China Bond Fund for its recently-appointed head of Asian debt, Sean Chang.
After completing his gardening leave having resigned from Baring Asset Management, Mark Julio has joined Igins Asset Management’s emerging market equities team.
Baring Asset Management has confirmed Christopher Mahon is to join the firm in the role of director of asset allocation research.
Barings has appointed Mike Levy to the role of senior investment manager in the EMEA equity team, joining from AllianceBernstein today.
Barings has appointed Sean Chang, former investment director at HSBC Global Asset Management, as head of Asian debt based in Hong Kong.
It is not often that fund managers and intermediaries agree to the extent they are right now but at the moment there is a huge amount of consensus about the economic environment, resulting in remarkably similar asset class views.
Former Barings man Jerry Devlin has taken on a new role at Macquarie running the sales division looking after financial institutions.
Ajay Argal looks forward to a boost to India’s equity markets from a $35bn infrastructure spend from the government.
Baring Asset Management has announced the launch of a Global Mining Fund for ex-BlackRock vice president Clive Burstow, who rejoined the firm in June.
