Baring Asset Management, the London-headquartered investment house which is part of MassMutual Financial Group, has added Staffan Lindfeldt and Isabelle Alexander to its global emerging market equities team, based at its London office.

Lindfeldt has been appointed head of global emerging market equities, reporting to head of equities Tim Scholefield.

Lindfeldt will be responsible for managing the global emerging market equities team and will be the lead investment manager on several portfolios, including the mutual funds and segregated portfolios, subject to regulatory approval. He joins from Handelsbanken Asset Management in Stockholm, where he has been chief portfolio manager for global emerging markets since 2006. 

The firm has also named Isabelle Alexander as an investment manager in the global emerging market equities team, reporting to Lindfeldt.

Alexander has seven years’ investment experience and was previously a portfolio manager at Pictet Asset Management in the global emerging markets team.