Mirabaud Asset Management has taken on Daniel Tubbs – latterly of BlackRock – to manage a long-only UCITS investment fund focused on emerging market equities.

The fund will be set up in Luxembourg but Tubbs will work in London, supported by three others, the firm said in a statement. 

At BlackRock, Tubbs was co-head of the global emerging markets team for four years. As fund manager, he was responsible for two investment funds, including the Global Emerging Markets Fund, with assets of $1.2 billion.

The firm said Tubbs has “significant” experience in Asian equities, having managed the Asia (excluding Japan) group of funds at WestLB Asset Management between 2001 and 2007.

In other recent developments, Mirabaud and New Street Research teamed up to offer equity and debt research, in a new venture called Mirabaud New Street, earlier this month.

Mirabaud Asset Management, a subsidiary of Geneva-based Mirabaud, has operations in London, Paris, Montreal, Barcelona, Zurich and Geneva.