In a statement, Aviva said it had appointed Amy Kam as a new senior portfolio manager for its emerging market corporate bond strategy.
The group said Ms Kam had over a decade of experience in emerging markets corporate debt and had most recently worked for Swiss investment manager GAM Investments.
In addition, Aviva had recruited Nafez Zouk to the newly created position of emerging markets sovereign analyst.
Mr Zouk was a former emerging markets strategist for Oxford Economics with over 10 years’ experience in the space, the firm said.
His new role would “largely focus on sovereign issuers that are active in both local and hard currency markets”, Aviva said.
Finally, Aleksej Gren had also been promoted to emerging markets corporate analyst after joining the investment manager in September last year as a credit analyst.
“Aleksej will be responsible for the analysis of EM corporate debt issuers with a focus on the metals & mining, consumer, infrastructure and real estate sectors,” the firm said.
“We’re delighted to welcome Amy, Nafez and Aleksej to the team,” Aviva head of emerging market debt Liam Spillane said.
“Their combined wealth of expertise will be invaluable in further accelerating our capabilities in EMD and their appointments are evidence of Aviva Investors’ commitment to the asset class as an important building block of its fixed income business.”
