ACPI, the London-based wealth management and asset management firm, has strengthened its team with the appointment of Alia Yousuf as an executive director and portfolio manager for the ACPI Emerging Markets Fixed Income UCITS Fund.

Yousuf joins ACPI from Standard Chartered Bank’s asset management arm Standard Asset Management where she ran its Emerging Market Fixed Income Fund. Before joining Standard Bank in 2006 she held roles at First State Investments and the World Bank.

In her new role at ACPI, Yousuf will report to Steve O’Hanlon, head of fixed income.

Other funds managed by ACPI include an international bond fund, a global fixed income fund and a global equity UCITS fund.

ACPI was founded by Alok Oberoi, a former partner of Goldman Sachs, and has $3 billion under management.