Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has hired Greg Saichin as head of emerging market debt (EMD) from Pioneer Investments.
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Saichin will take up his new role at Allianz in September 2013 and will set up the firm’s first specialist unit for developing world bonds.
In this newly created role, Saichin will oversee the development of the company’s first EMD unit.
Saichin with over 20 years of experience joins the firm after spending 13 years as portfolio manager at Pioneer Investments. At Pioneer, he was head of emerging markets & high yield fixed income portfolio management.
Andreas Utermann, co-head and global CIO at AllianzGI, said: "With the secular rebalancing of global growth from OECD markets towards emerging economies, emerging market debt is becoming an increasingly significant and attractive asset class for long term investors.
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By GlobalData"The superior growth rates will be sustained through higher rates of investment, much of which will be debt-funded," Utermann added.
