Barings
PEOPLE MOVES: Barings, BNP Paribas, PraxisIFM
Baring Asset Management’s heads of EMEA wholesale distribution and global marketing have left the business. BNP Paribas AM has a new Asia Pacific head of institutional sales and currencies portfolio manager. Channel Islands-based PraxisIFM is focusing on client risk with its latest promotion.
PEOPLE MOVES: Deutsche Bank, RLAM, J. Safra Sarasin
After Deutsche Bank’s head of anti-financial crime stepped down just six months into the job, the German bank has named his replacement. RLAM has created a global equity team by poaching three staff from Waverton IM, while J. Safra Sarasin has a new managing director for client advisory in Hong Kong.
Barings merger creates giant global fund
Four MassMutual affiliates have been merged under the Barings brand to create one of the world’s largest asset management organisations with AUM of more than $275bn (£207bn, €245bn).
Multi Asset | 17 Aug 16
OPINION: Why investors are running out of new ideas
Call it symptomatic of the summer lull but, with so much debate centred on cost, genuine product innovation seems to have taken something of a back seat.
People Moves | 17 May 16
PEOPLE MOVES: Barings, BlackRock, Deutsche Bank…
Barings chief investment officer is to depart just two months after it was announced that the firm will merge with three other MassMutual affiliates. BlackRock has named a new chief investment officer in Japan, while Deutsche Bank has appointed a global head of M&A.