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Vontobel is expanding its suite of emerging market bond products with a fixed maturity fund, responding to investors demand for income with a predictable credit and duration risk trajectory.

Vontobel Asset Management has become first list signatory of the UK Stewardship Code 2021. The Code provides principles that institutional investors are expected to follow. The Code sets high stewardship standards for those investing money on behalf of UK savers and pensioners (asset managers), asset owners, and service providers (proxy advisers, investment consultants, and data providers).

In response to increasing demand for investments in transformational megatrends, Vontobel is expanding its suite of thematic funds for professional investors with the addition of a multi-theme equity fund.

Vontobel has expanded its suite of sustainable funds with the addition of a new global impact equity fund. This will be managed by newly-appointed Elena Tedesco, a highly experienced Portfolio Manager who further strengthens Vontobel’s growing Listed Impact team.

Vontobel Asset Management has appointed Jean-François Grun as Senior Relationship Manager in Geneva to expand its dedicated, in-market expertise to intermediary clients in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Vontobel is expanding its suite of ESG bond funds with two new products—an impact green bond fund and a sustainable emerging markets debt fund—to meet growing investor demand for solutions that combine the goal of providing attractive income with a sustainable approach.

Vontobel has expanded its fixed income team with four seasoned new hires in Zurich and New York. The appointments reinforce the firm’s commitment to attracting the best investment talent to drive value for investors. The latest appointments follow a further four new hires in January across both its Zurich and Hong Kong offices.

Vontobel has further strengthened its emerging markets fixed income team with four new appointments across its Zurich and Hong Kong offices, including a Strategist / Portfolio Manager and three new analysts, reflecting its ongoing commitment to developing its emerging markets expertise for the benefit of investors.

Vontobel Asset Management is announcing the opening of its Tokyo office and appoints Goji Yoshino as Country Head Japan.