Published: May 15, 2012
Senior portfolio manager to launch new funds.
Insparo Asset Management, which has Africa and Middle East-focused funds, has appointed Cian Walsh as a senior portfolio manager.
The appointment strengthens the firm’s regional expertise ahead of its planned expansion into new frontier and emerging markets.
Walsh will launch new products for the firm, which includes a local market fund to be introduced later this year.
Mohammed Hanif, Insparo’s chief investment officer, said Walsh joins a team that has more than 60 years of emerging and frontier markets experience and he will be “instrumental” to the firm’s push into new territories.
Walsh joins the firm from asset manager BlueBay, where he was part of the firm’s investment committee. He started his career as an emerging markets strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, before spending two years as an EMEA-focused portfolio manager at Standard Asset Management.
He joins a firm which manages the Insparo Africa Equity Fund and the Insparo Africa and Middle East Fund.