General Insurance Article - LGIM announce new appointments to emerging markets team

 Philip Meier, a Portfolio Manager, joins from AXA Investment Managers where he was Senior Portfolio Manager in the EM Fixed Income Team. John Gray, a Credit Analyst specialising in financial issuers, joins LGIM from The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was a Vice President within the EM Credit Trading team.

  

 Patnaik joined LGIM a year ago bringing over 25 years’ experience in the EM fixed income sector with a remit to build a specialist, high quality and experienced EM team. He manages EM fixed income on a standalone basis and within LGIM’s growing multi-strategy, absolute return and global credit products.

  

 Uday Patnaik, Head of EM Fixed Income at LGIM, said:

 “I am excited to welcome Philip and John to the team, adding depth and experience to our active EM capability.

  

 “The team now brings together broad and deep experience across both hard and local currency sovereign, corporate and financial issuers.

  

 “With dedicated regional portfolio management teams and highly experienced sector analysts, the addition of a complete EM capability enables LGIM to source investment opportunities from across the full suite of fixed income markets.”

  

 The EM capability is part of LGIM’s Global Fixed Income team which comprises 70 fixed income professionals, actively managing in excess of £120 billion in fixed income mandates.