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Colin Ng, head of Asian equities at Barings, has left the group to pursue other opportunities.

Baring Asset Management is to launch a China Bond fund providing investors with exposure to the country's previously restricted fixed interest markets, as demand for new ways to play the Chinese growth story continues to build.

AGRICULTURE

Barings' Khiem Do has said the chances of the Federal Reserve carrying out QE3 are remote, with economic indicators in the US still "reasonably strong" and by no means justifying further action.

Barings has hired Christopher Mahon from RMB Asset Management to replace Toby Nangle, Investment Week understands.

After building up a $5bn emerging markets strategy at Barings, James Syme and Paul Wimborne left in February 2011 to join boutique fund manager JO Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM).

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