Hermes Investment Management has hired a former Jupiter and J.P. Morgan credit specialist to manage the performance and risk of existing emerging market allocations. 

Hermes Investment Management appointed Nachu Chockalingam (pictured above) as Senior Emerging Market Debt Portfolio Manager. Based in London, she reports into Fraser Lundie, Co-Head of Credit.

The appointment is representative of the firm’s approach to providing current and prospective clients with access to all areas of global credit markets. Chockalingam will help manage the performance and risk of existing emerging market allocations across all liquid credit strategies.

Working on Emerging Markets Strategy

She joined Hermes from Jupiter, where she worked on the firm’s emerging markets strategy. She previously spent 13 years at J.P. Morgan in London as a sellside credit analyst covering emerging market and European corporates.

She then joined Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, where she was a Portfolio Manager for the firm’s emerging markets assets, investing in all aspects of the fixed income universe, including corporates, sovereigns and derivatives.