Threadneedle boosts bond team with four hires

John Peta has joined Threadneedle to head its emerging market debt team alongside Henry Stipp, and the group has made three other hires on its fixed income team.

Peta joins from Boston-based Acadian Asset Management, where he was head of emerging market debt, having joined the firm in 2007. He has experience in fixed income and sovereign analysis, and managing EM local currency debt from across more than 30 countries including frontier markets. Stipp, co-head of the EMD team, has been at Threadneedle since 2001. The duo will lead the eight investment professionals on the firm’s emerging market macroeconomic strategy group, which formulates EM investment strategy across a range of Threadneedle’s fixed income products. The group manages a ...