Magda Branet returns to AXA IM from Candriam

Joins as head of EM and Asian fixed income

Magda Branet has returned to AXA Investment Managers as head of emerging markets and Asian fixed income, having left in 2015 to join First State Investments and then Candriam.

In her new role, which is already in effect, Branet will report to Marion Le Morhedec, AXA IM's global head of fixed income. Branet originally joined AXA IM in 2005 as an emerging markets and fixed income strategist, and went on to become an emerging markets fixed income portfolio manager, responsible for co-managing its Global Emerging Market Debt and Emerging Market Debt Short Duration strategies. When she left in 2015, it was to take up the role of senior emerging markets fixed income portfolio manager at First State Investments. AXA IM names new global head of fixed income S...