AXA IM hires emerging market debt manager from Columbia Threadneedle

Mark Bodon joins

AXA Investment Managers has hired Mark Bodon to the firm’s emerging market and Asian fixed income team.

Working as a senior portfolio manager, Bodon will report to Magda Branet, head of emerging markets and Asian fixed income. Optimism grows for EMD while increasing yields remains top priority He joined the firm on 4 July, and now co-manages the AXA WF Asian Short Duration Bonds fund and AXA WF Asian High Yield Bonds fund alongside Branet and portfolio manager Mikhail Volodchenko. Before AXA, Bodon worked as a portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, managing various hard currency sovereign and corporate debt investment strategies. Prior to that, he worked as a ...