International asset manager Robeco has hired an Emerging Market Debt (EMD) team, consisting of portfolio managers Diliana Deltcheva, Richard Briggs and Nicholas Sauer.
The trio will complement the firm’s Emerging Markets (EM) offering with the launch of both hard currency and local currency sovereign debt strategies during the second half of this year.
Robeco chief investment officer, Mark van der Kroft, said, “Expanding in EMD is a logical step for Robeco, as it combines two of our key strengths: investing in emerging markets and our expertise in fixed income.
“These appointments and the expansion of our offering with an EMD capability, enable us to better serve our clients and capitalise on the opportunities present in this dynamic asset class. Robeco has a long-term fundamental view on emerging markets, a grouping of constantly evolving and highly diverse countries at different stages of development. A long-term view is vital to uncovering the structural drivers in emerging markets, which together with our quant and sustainable investing capabilities allow us to harness the wide range of emerging markets opportunities.”
Deltcheva has been head of EMD at Candriam since March 2015. She started her career more than 20 years ago at ING Investment Management in the Netherlands as a quantitative fixed income analyst, where she became an EMD fund manager in 2006. Between 2011 and 2015, she worked at F&C Investments as a senior emerging fund manager.
Briggs has been co-portfolio manager of the Candriam EMD HC sovereign strategies, and lead manager on the Candriam Emerging Markets Debt Local Currencies strategy. He has almost 15 years of experience in EM markets with a strong focus on Latin American, African and Asian countries. He joined Candriam in 2022.
Sauer has been a co-portfolio manager at Candriam on the EMD HC sovereign strategies since 2019. Previously, he worked at BMO Asset Management in the role of EMD specialist and portfolio manager. Sauer has been active in EM markets for almost 15 years.
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