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T Rowe Price launch dynamic EM debt ETF

T. Rowe Price has launched their new Dynamic Emerging Markets Bond ETF. The ETF combines bonds across emerging market sovereign, corporate, and local currency markets and is managed by Leonard Kwan, Samy Muaddi and Richard Hall. Leonard Kwan, portfolio manager (pictured) said, "The complexities of emerging market investing requires active management to navigate divergent growth, inflation, and currency trends. Backed by over 30 years of emerging markets expertise, TDEM offers

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T Rowe Price launch dynamic EM debt ETF

T. Rowe Price has launched their new Dynamic Emerging Markets Bond ETF. The ETF combines bonds across emerging market sovereign, corporate, and local currency markets and is managed by Leonard Kwan, Samy Muaddi and Richard Hall. Leonard Kwan, portfolio manager (pictured) said, "The complexities of emerging market investing requires active management to navigate divergent growth, inflation, and currency trends. Backed by over 30 years of emerging markets expertise, TDEM offers

JP Morgan launching new frontier markets index

JPMorgan is expected to launch a frontier market local-currency government bond index in September. The new index, called GBI-EM Edge, will cover the bonds of 26 countries with the largest weightings going to Egypt, Vietnam, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. African countries will make up 45% ⁠of the index, with Asia contributing around 30%. It is expected to include bonds of at least $250 million with at least 2.5 years left to maturity. END

Nomura AM hires Richard Hastings as credit fund manager

Nomura Asset Management has announced the appointment of Richard Hastings as client portfolio manager responsible for the firm’s Global Dynamic Bond Fund and NAM fixed income capabilities. He will report to Mari Nakamura, senior managing director, CEO Nomura Asset Management UK, and will be based in London. Hastings was previously at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he served as portfolio manager for investment grade credit portfolios across the EMEA and for emerging mar

Principal AM launches EM debt high income fund

Principal Asset Management has launched the Finisterre Emerging Markets Debt High Income Fund. With initial capital of $100 million the fund invests in sovereign, local, and corporate bonds and aims to maintain a volatility profile within an annualized range of 3% to 5% with a portfolio consisting of 100 to 150 issuers. It will be managed by Damien Buchet, CIO of Principal Finisterre (pictured), and Christopher Watson, senior portfolio manager. Buchet said, “In the current en

Joseph Kerkor joins ING as head of EMEA credit trading

Kerkor will be responsible for a team of five traders covering EMEA emerging markets including central and eastern Europe, the middle east, and South Africa. He was previously emerging markets credit trading executive director at Barclay and head of emerging markets CEEMEA credit trading at BNP Paribas. END

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

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