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Mary-Therese Barton
- — Pictet Asset Management (Sub-adviser)
- — 6 Years with Fund
- — 19 Years in Industry
Mary-Therese Barton joined Pictet Asset Management in 2004 and is the Head of Emerging Debt. Before assuming her current position in 2018, she was a Senior Investment Manager in the team. She joined as an Emerging Debt Analyst. Prior to joining Pictet, she worked at Dun & Bradstreet, where she was an economist responsible for analyzing European countries. Ms. Barton graduated with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford. She holds an MSc with distinction in Development Finance from the Centre for Financial Management Studies, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), part of the University of London. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
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Guido Chamorro
- — Pictet Asset Management (Sub-adviser)
- — 6 Years with Fund
- — 24 Years in Industry
Guido Chamorro joined Pictet Asset Management in 2005 and is co-lead of the USD Emerging Debt business. Prior to assuming his current role, he was a Credit Analyst in the Fixed Income Credit Research team and was appointed as Investment Manager for Emerging Debt, specializing in EM corporates, in 2007. Before joining Pictet, he worked for Fitch, Inc. in Chicago as a director of their Latin American Corporate Finance Group and Duff & Phelps Credit Rating as an analyst, thereby gaining seven years experience in corporate credit research. Mr. Chamorro graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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Carrie Liaw
- — Pictet Asset Management (Sub-adviser)
- — 5 Years with Fund
- — 21 Years in Industry
Carrie Liaw joined Pictet Asset Management in 2015. She is a Senior Investment Manager responsible for global emerging market debt and Asian debt portfolios based in Singapore. Before joining Pictet, Ms. Liaw was with the Monetary Authority of Singapore for 15 years and worked in different investment divisions within the Reserve Management Department, including heading up the European Rates and FX divisions. Ms. Liaw holds a Bachelor of Business (Hons) in Financial Analysis from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
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Alper Gocer
- — Pictet Asset Management (Sub-adviser)
- — 2 Years with Fund
- — 22 Years in Industry
Alper Gocer joined Pictet Asset Management in 2016. He leads the Emerging Local Currency Debt business. Prior to assuming his current role in 2018, he was a Senior Investment Manager in the Total Return Emerging Markets team. Before joining Pictet, Mr. Gocer was a Portfolio Manager at London Diversified Fund Management within the Global Macro Fund. Prior to LDFM, he was a Portfolio Manager at North Asset Management focused on Global Macro trading mainly in Emerging Markets. He began his career as a Quantitative Analyst at Citigroup. Mr. Gocer has a Masters in Finance from the London Business School and a BSc. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.
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Robert Simpson,CFA
- — Pictet Asset Management (Sub-adviser)
- — 1 Years with Fund
- — 15 Years in Industry
Robert Simpson joined Pictet Asset Management in 2019. He is co-Head of Emerging Hard Currency Debt/Senior Investment Manager, based in London. Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Simpson was a Senior Investment Manager in the team covering both hard and local currency debt focusing on EMEA and Latin American regions. Before joining Pictet, Mr. Simpson spent 13 years at Insight Investment where he was a portfolio manager focusing on hard and local currency emerging market debt portfolios. Mr. Simpson holds a BSc in Pharmacology, attained a PG Diploma in Economics in 2004 and later earned an MSc in Finance and Economics in 2005, all from the University of Manchester. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
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Ali Bora Yigit
- — Pictet Asset Management (Sub-adviser)
- — <1 Years with Fund
- — 16 Years in Industry
Ali Bora Yigitbasioglu joined Pictet Asset Management in 2019. He is a Senior Investment Manager in the Emerging Market Debt team responsible for global emerging market debt and Asian debt portfolios. Prior to assuming his current role, he was a Senior Investment Manager for the Total Return Fixed Income team. Before joining Pictet, Mr. Yigitbasioglu was Senior Portfolio Manager in Global Macro at Cambridge Strategy Asset Management in Monaco, responsible for FX and Rates and specializing in Asian markets. Mr. Yigitbasioglu graduated in Pure and Applied Maths at Cambridge University, and continued his graduate studies with Distinction at Imperial College in Finance and at Bilkent University in Finance and Econometrics. He completed his PhD in Mathematical Finance at ICMA Centre (Reading) and started his career in London at Lehman Brothers in 2004 as an FX Quantitative Analyst. From 2006 until 2010 he was an EM local rates trader, and a Hybrid Exotics trader at Lehman Brothers and Dresdner Kleinwort, respectively.
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Adriana Cristea
- — Pictet Asset Management (Sub-adviser)
- — <1 Years with Fund
- — 9 Years in Industry
Adriana Cristea joined Pictet Asset Management in April 2018. She is an Investment Manager in the Emerging Debt team. Before assuming her current position in 2020, she was a Macro Strategist in the team. Prior to joining Pictet, Ms. Cristea spent six years at DG Partners, a global macro hedge fund, as a Senior Global Macro Research Analyst and Strategist focusing on Emerging Markets Forex, Rates and Credit strategies. Ms. Cristea holds a BSc in Financial Management from the University of Essex and a MSc in Finance from the University of Warwick. She also holds the Investment Management Certificate (IMC).