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Manulife IM appoints head of emerging markets fixed income
Manulife Investment Management has appointed Liam Spillane as head of emerging markets fixed income and senior portfolio manager, emerging markets debt. Spillane was previously at Aviva Investors where he was head of emerging markets debt. At Manulife he will be responsible for the firm's emerging markets fixed income business managing a global team of portfolio managers and analysts. Colin Purdie, Global Chief Investment Officer, Public Markets, Manulife Investment Managemen
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Manulife IM appoints head of emerging markets fixed income
Manulife Investment Management has appointed Liam Spillane as head of emerging markets fixed income and senior portfolio manager, emerging markets debt. Spillane was previously at Aviva Investors where he was head of emerging markets debt. At Manulife he will be responsible for the firm's emerging markets fixed income business managing a global team of portfolio managers and analysts. Colin Purdie, Global Chief Investment Officer, Public Markets, Manulife Investment Managemen
Union Bancaire Privée adds to EM debt team
Union Bancaire Privée has hired Tanja Boskovic as senior portfolio manager for its emerging market debt team. Boskovic was previously at Blackrock working as a EM fixed income portfolio manager. At UBP she will be responsible for supporting the firm's local currency EM debt investing. Thomas Christiansen, head of emerging market debt, said, “We are delighted to welcome Tanja to UBP. Her experience across emerging market macro and local debt strategies further strengthens and
L&G to invest $1bn in EM debt for nature swaps
Legal & General is to invest $1 billion in 'debt for nature' swaps in emerging markets, designed to reduce interest payments and support conservation in developing countries. The move will double L&G's investment in nature conservation and sustainable development in emerging markets with the funds uses including debt-for-education or debt-for-food swaps. Jake Harper, senior investment manager at L&G, said the decision, "will give us the ability to be the cornerstone investor
Carmignac adds to emerging markets debt team
Carmignac has hired fund manager Lamine Bougueroua to its emerging markets debt team. Bougueroua will be responsible for managing the firm's Portfolio EM Debt fund and the Portfolio Emerging Patrimoine strategy. He was previously at UBP Asset Management where he was a senior portfolio manager in the emerging markets fixed income team. Guillaume Rigeade and Pierre Verlé, co-heads of fixed income, said, “Emerging market debt is a key pillar of our fixed income offering and rema
JP Morgan plans local currency frontier markets index
JPMorgan is planning to launch a new index that will track local currency bonds from frontier markets. The index comes 15 after after the bank launch EXGEM, its hard currency frontier index. It is believed that the index will include up to 25 countries, with the largest weightings going to Egypt, Vietnam, Kenya, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and the index is expected to only include bonds of a value of $250 million or greater. More details a
Colombia issues three global bonds worth US$5 billion
Colombia has issued three dollar bonds totalling US$4.95 billion, the largest foreign debt issuance in its history with orders reaching US$23.2 billion. The three bonds issued will mature in 2029, 2031, and 2033 with the largest (2029) in an amount of US$2bn with a coupon rate of 5.37%. The remaining two tranches, maturing in 2031 and 2033, totalled US$1.47bn each, with coupon rates of 6.12% and 6.50%, respectively. The Ministry of Finance said that the issuance looks to mee
Franklin Templeton launches emerging markets debt ETF
Franklin Templeton has launched the Templeton Emerging Markets Debt ETF (TEMD). The fund is managed by portfolio managers from the Templeton Global Macro Team including Christine Yuhui Zhu, Michael Sheehan, Vivek Ahuja, and Jaap Willems. The hard currency ETF includes flexibility to add select local currency and EM currencies while using derivatives to help manage currency, rate and credit exposures. It invests at least 80% of its net assets in emerging market debt securitie
Ecuador looks for return to global debt market
Ecuador is looking to return to international debt markets for the first time since 2019. Ecuador is hoping to return to international debt markets for the first time since 2019 by issuing bonds to fund a repurchase of notes due 2030 and 2035, according to statements from the finance ministry. Its said debt issuance, “enables the execution of liability management operations aimed at improving the debt profile and reducing service pressures in the medium term.” Finance Ministe
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