Investment - Articles - J.P. Morgan Asset Management adds Tayebi to its debt team

 J.P. Morgan Asset Management has today announced the appointment of Nima Tayebi to its emerging market debt and currency team.

  

 Tayebi is a currency specialist with more than 18 years experience. He joins to lead J.P. Morgan Asset Management's emerging market currency investment strategy, a key component of the company's local currency debt portfolios. Tayebi will report to Pierre-Yves Bareau, Head of Emerging Market Debt and Jonathon Griggs, Head of FX Strategy.

  

 Tayebi was most recently a portfolio manager at Polar Capital Partners. Prior to that, he was at Aberdeen Asset Management for nine years as an emerging market currency and debt portfolio manager. He also spent two years at Millennium Global Investments, a specialist currency management boutique, and has held FX trading and research positions on the sell side at Salomon Brothers and Renaissance Capital, based in Moscow.

 Pierre-Yves Bareau, Head of Emerging Market Debt at J.P. Morgan Asset Management said: "As the opportunity in emerging market debt continues to grow, ensuring we have the best global resources is essential to our continued success. We are very pleased that Nima has joined us to bolster an already talented and successful team of specialists located in seven cities across the world. The emerging market debt team is responsible for our robust, and globally-integrated, investment process which has delivered positive returns across our product base and seen our assets under management grow from USD $7 billion to approximately USD $17 billion in the last two years."