PIMCO's Guillermo Osses has joined HSBC Global Asset Management as head of emerging markets debt portfolio management.
Jose Cuervo of HSBC Global Asset Management runs the $3bn (£1.9bn) HSBC GIF Brazil Equity fund, a Luxembourg-based Sicav registered in the UK.
Britain's banks were given the go-ahead last night to pay unlimited bonuses, drawing to a close a two-year political battle to rein in the City.
Blue chips have had a first stab at hitting the magic 6,000 level following gains in the US overnight and are regrouping after falling just one point short.
HSBC's Nick Timberlake believes there are strong pockets of opportunity in emerging markets including Russia which spent most of 2010 out of favour with global investors.
BlackRock's Mark Lyttleton is looking to increase exposure to banks in his £1.4bn UK Dynamic fund in the view valuations are attractive again.
HSBC is being sued for $9bn by the trustee trying to recover money for the victims of Bernard Madoff's fraud.
OBSR analysts Sarah Bewley and Diego Higuera reveal the Latin American funds currently on their radar.
Crispin Odey has highlighted the financial sector as one of four key areas of the market he expects to outperform in the next one to two years.