Global Emerging Markets

Prudential chair Paul Manduca has joined the board of the Templeton Emerging Markets trust as its chairman steps down after more than a decade with the company.

AXA Investment Managers has hired two senior members to its EMD team as its head of emerging markets fixed income Damien Buchet departs.

AXA Investment Managers has handed its onshore emerging markets fund, previously managed by head of emerging markets Julian Thompson, to Ian Smith and Paul Birchenough in a team reshuffle.

Hexam Capital Partners is to close majority shareholder Bryan Collings' onshore Global Emerging Markets fund after assets shrunk to an uneconomical level.

BNY Mellon Investment Management is making the Newton Global Emerging Markets fund available to UK retail investors by merging it into its UCITS fund range.

Vincent Chailley, CIO of H2O Asset Management

The final chapter in the series from Standard Life Investments looks at current opportunities to be found in emerging markets.

Newton Global Emerging Markets

African financials are looking attractive despite the continent's wider corruption troubles, according to Old Mutual Investment Group's Cavan Osborne.

Gary Greenberg, head of emerging markets at Hermes, said fears over the impact of a US interest rate rise seem excessive and investors need to question the consensus.