Vontobel has further strengthened its emerging markets fixed income team with four new appointments across its Zurich and Hong Kong offices, including a strategist/portfolio manager and three new analysts.
Carlos de Sousa joins the team as emerging markets strategist and portfolio manager in Zurich. He is an economist with solid experience in both emerging and frontier markets and joins from Oxford Economics, a leading organization in global forecasting and quantitative analysis. As head emerging markets economist, he was responsible for thematic macro and strategy research on emerging and frontier markets with a focus on distressed sovereigns and EM-wide global trends.
Prior to that, he was a research fellow at Bruegel in Brussels, a think tank specialized in economics, where he co-authored policy-oriented research briefings, working papers and economic blogs on European economics.
Nuria Jorba Arimany has been appointed research analyst in Zurich. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Arimany spent 10 years at Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) in Zurich, where she was head of EM corporate credit research. Prior to that, she worked at Dresdner Kleinwort/Commerzbank in London.
Cosmo Zhang has been appointed research analyst in Hong Kong. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Zhang previously spent five years with Invesco Asset Management, where he was sector team lead of analysts, covering Asia ex-Japan corporate credits. Prior to that, he worked at Fitch Ratings as a director for five years.
Pius Yang Xue has been named research analyst in Hong Kong. With more than 10 years of industry experience, he worked at Dymon Asia where he was a senior investment analyst focused on Greater China high yield, stressed and distressed credit. Prior to that, he worked at LIM Advisors, Partners Group and Houlihan Lokey.
