Baring Asset Management is to launch a focused European fund for Nick Williams, head of small-cap equities, and Colin Riddles, portfolio manager on the small- and mid-cap desk.
Asia specialist Agnes Deng has left Baring Asset Management, handing her $2.3bn Hong Kong China fund to Laura Luo who joins the group from Schroders.
Flows into multi-asset products have been growing consistently in recent months, and multi-asset now constitutes 11% of the UK funds market.
Baring Asset Management has appointed James Ross to the newly created London-based role of director of investment process.
Aviva Investors has hired Sunita Kara from Baring Asset Management as portfolio manager for European high yield.
Ed Moisson has joined Barings to bolster the firm's research capabilities following his exit from Lipper earlier this month.
China's major equity markets slipped further into bear market territory this week as traders worried about the withdrawal of QE in the US, and slowing Chinese growth.