HSBC Global Asset Management is an investment manager with $470.2bn in AUM (as of 31 March 2018). It was formed in 1973 in Hong Kong as Wardley, a wholly-owned merchant banking subsidiary, changing its name to HSBC Asset Management 13 years later.
The company manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also launches and manages hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investments markets across the globe.
HSBC Global Asset Management is also the principal partner of Investment Week's Women in Investment Awards. Click here for more information about this year's ceremony, taking place on 28 November in London.
Former HSBC global fixed income head Guy Dunham has been appointed head of global and aggregate at Barings.
Guy Dunham has left his role as HSBC Global Asset Management's London head of global bonds.
HSBC Global Asset Management has launched the GIF Global Short Duration High Yield Bond fund for recent hire Mary Bowers.
HSBC Global Asset Management (GAM) is to launch a Far East ex-Japan ETF with a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.6%.
HSBC Global Asset Management (HSBC GAM) is to roll out a series of funds tracking indices it recently launched which aim to lower volatility.
HSBC Global Asset Management has launched a short duration high yield bond fund aimed at investors looking for protection from the threat of rising interest rates.
HSBC Global Asset Management has made two promotions within its Asian equities team.
M&G Investments has boosted its fixed income team, hiring Andrius Isciukas from HSBC Asset Management to work across the fund range.
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.