Vontobel Asset Management expands its emerging-markets fixed-income team

 

Valentina Chen, a four-star¹ fund manager, has been appointed to Vontobel’s emerging-markets fixed-income team as a portfolio manager, focusing on local currencies. This appointment emphasises Vontobel’s commitment to expand the 10-billion Swiss-franc boutique by hiring top investment professionals.

 

Valentina Chen brings a wealth of experience in emerging-markets debt to Vontobel. She joined from Aviva Investors where she worked for nine years and served as Head of Local Currency Debt, managing over two billion US dollars in emerging-markets local-currency debt and emerging-markets inflation-linked debt. In her new role, she assumes responsibilities for the management of the Vontobel Fund - Emerging Markets Bond, a local-currency fund.

 

Valentina Chen earned a Master of Science in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Economics, Politics & International Relations from the University of Warwick. She also studied financial markets and investment banking as a postgraduate exchange student at Harvard University. She is a CFA and CAIA charterholder.

 

"One of our strategic priorities is to grow our emerging-markets fixed-income offering by adding high-profile investment experts to the team", said Hervé Hanoune, Head of Fixed Income at Vontobel Asset Management.

 

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