Gigi Chan, manager of the top performing Threadneedle China Opportunities fund, has left the group to take a career break, Investment Week can reveal.
Fidelity's Teera Chanpongsang is to hand over the group's onshore Emerging Asia fund on 1 November as he prepares to take over the £2.1bn South East Asia OEIC.
Martin Currie has appointed Michael Millar as an investment manager on its Asian equities team.
Cazenove's Marcus Brookes and Robin McDonald have bought back into commodities for the first time since the financial crisis, snapping up funds which have sold off sharply on the back of tumbling commodity prices.
Matthews Asia, the US-based Asia-only fund house, is set to make a further push into the UK market after three years of preparatory work.