Georgina Hellyer joined as an analyst for global emerging markets yesterday and Ilan Furman will join as an analyst for the Latin American markets on 1 August. Both will sit within the London-based Asia ex-Japan emerging markets equities team, which is headed by Vanessa Donegan and manages some £6.1 billion ($10.01 billion) of assets in emerging market, Latin America, Asia (ex-Japan), China and India equity portfolios.

Hellyer was latterly a commodities and technical analyst within the emerging markets and Asian equities team at Aviva Investors. Furman, meanwhile, was formerly a member of Pictet’s emerging markets equities team, focusing on Latin America.

Threadneedle’s global emerging markets equities team is now ten-strong following several recent hires. In May Irina Miklavchich was appointed as fund manager for Threadneedle’s £130 million global emerging markets equity fund and in April Daniel Isidori joined as a Latin America fund manager.