Alan Burnett, head of UK intermediary business at Martin Currie, is to leave the firm at the start of June for Lyxor Asset Management.
Fund managers are starting to buy back into UK-listed large-cap miners, seeing valuations as too good to refuse as wider sentiment on the sector hits a "decade low".
Martin Currie has set up an investment hub in Singapore to focus on its growing client base in Asia.
Martin Currie's Asian equity manager Jason McCay is to exit the group imminently, Investment Week understands.
US fund managers who avoided technology giant Apple in the final quarter of last year have raced to the top of the IMA North America sector after the company endured a fierce sell-off.
The £3m Martin Currie Global Energy fund is set to wind down at the end of February after prolonged uderperformance.
Martin Currie's Tom Walker has bought back into US banks for the first time in three years on expectations the sector will return to pre-crisis norms.
Joanna Faith asks managers for their best global income stocks.