BNP Paribas Investment Partners announces the appointment of L. Bryan Carter as Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income. He will be based in London and will report to Dominick DeAlto, Chief Investment Officer of Institutional Fixed Income.
Bryan has 12 years’ experience of emerging market fixed income investment and joins from Acadian Asset Management in Boston, where he was lead portfolio manager for benchmark relative and absolute return fixed income strategies and was a member of the Macro Strategy and Investment Policy committees. He joined Acadian in 2007 to launch the company’s emerging market fixed income strategy. Prior to Acadian, he spent four years as an international economist, first at the United States Treasury Department and then at T Rowe Price Associates. Bryan has a BA in Economics & Spanish from Georgetown University and an MPAdm in International Development from Harvard University.
In this role Bryan will have oversight of the management of all emerging market fixed income portfolios and will be responsible for overall investment strategy, performance and the allocation of the risk budget across multiple sources of alpha within emerging markets. BNP Paribas Investment Partners’ emerging market fixed income team currently consists of eight investment professionals and manages client assets totalling $1.3 billion across a range of mutual funds and segregated client accounts.
Dominick DeAlto, Chief Investment Officer of Institutional Fixed Income at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, comments: “Bryan Carter has considerable experience of evaluating emerging market risks and opportunities, gained within both asset management and central government planning, and we are pleased to welcome him as Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income. BNP Paribas Investment Partners has an extensive network of analytical resources based across the broad emerging markets universe, providing us with access to real-time local information. Bryan will be instrumental in further harnessing these capabilities in order to ensure that we continue to deliver optimum investment performance for our clients.”