Baring Asset Management has appointed Andrew Lamb as senior US equity analyst and Paul Morgan as investment analyst.

Mr Lamb will join in January 2008 from Insight Investment Management, where he was an investment analyst responsible for sectors including pharmaceuticals, support services and household products. At Baring he will focus on industrial companies.

Mr Morgan joins from Brown Shipley where he was a fund manager and equity analyst, responsible for the management of a bottom-up special situations UK OEIC. He was also a member of the global asset allocation team, advising on broader asset allocation decisions with respect to both geographies and asset classes. He comes on board early in 2008 as part of the European large cap team.