Mirabaud Asset Management has launched a Global Equity High Income fund for new recruit Kirill Pyshkin.
Henderson Global Investors has launched a SICAV mirror version of its £680m Global Equity Income fund.
Lazard Global Equity Income manager Pat Ryan has been buying EM stocks on valuation grounds as the region continues to underperform global indices.
Since the news Neil Woodford is leaving Invesco Perpetual next year, investors have been prompted to review their asset allocation in the equity income space.
Sonja Laud, manager of the Schroders Global Equity Income fund, is to leave the group by the end of the year.
Equity funds in most regions may have enjoyed strong capital growth so far in 2013, but the ongoing hunt for yield means equity income strategies are still sharing the limelight.