M&G Investments' bond manager Richard Woolnough has backed gilts to shrug-off Moody's downgrade warning released earlier this week.
Colin Harte, co-manager of the Barings Global Bond Trust, has left the company after 12 years of service.
Barings' multi-asset team has bought £350m in Italian government bonds in the expectation European banks will use the ECB's Long Term Recovery Organisation (LTRO) to buy government debt.
Former BlackRock analyst Burstow to run new Global Mining offering for Barings, with mandate to invest in mining equities across cap scale.
Barings is merging Colin Harte's Absolute Return Global Bond trust into Andrew Cole's £90m Multi Asset fund.
Baring Asset Management has hired Matthew Whitbread to work on the multi-asset team in Boston.
Barings is to add to its Asian equity fund range with an Indian product for recent hire Ajay Argal.
Barings' head of Asian equities Colin Ng is rotating his portfolio away from industrials and petro-chemical stocks that took a hit in the summer sell-off, and has been adding to banks.
Baring Asset Management has appointed Michael Simpson to the role of head of Latin American equities as it moves to expand its presence in the space.