Tim Gibson is joining Henderson Global Investors as head of property equities for Asia on 1 March.
AXA's senior portfolio manager Julie Lamirel is planning to add emerging market debt to her £20m Sterling Credit Short Duration Bond fund due to the attractive yields on offer.
Barings' James Syme and Paul Wimborne are joining J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) to launch a new emerging markets fund later this year.
Turkey is unlikely to suffer any contagion effects from the events in Egypt, says Jupiter's Elena Shaftan, but she warns the most dangerous time for investors will be after the country's next election on 4 June.
The Egyptian crisis has boosted the price of oil to a two-year high but sent equity markets lower, causing some managers to warn of contagion risk to the global economic recovery.
ON EMERGING MARKETS
Fidelity's veteran manager Anthony Bolton has hit back at Aberdeen's head of equities Hugh Young, who says he is struggling to find quality, well-run companies on the Chinese mainland.
PIMCO's Guillermo Osses has joined HSBC Global Asset Management as head of emerging markets debt portfolio management.