Barings multi-asset manager Ind departs

Absolute return strategy to be taken over by Styles

Baring Asset Management's multi-asset manager James Ind has left the firm after two years, Investment Week understands.

Ind (pictured) joined the firm in September 2015 from GLG Partners to develop a long-short strategy for the firm, which resulted in the launch of the Dynamic Absolute Return fund in June 2016. Prior to this he worked at Russell Investments and Julius Baer. Ind and colleague Merrick Styles were both hired to replace multi-asset fund manager Hartwig Kos, who left the firm in 2015 to join Syz Asset Management as co-head of multi-asset and vice CIO. Ind's portfolio management role on the Dynamic Absolute Return fund has been taken over by investment director Styles, who joined the firm...