GAM strengthens its emerging market equity team with the addition of an ex-Bank of China investment manager.

Lynn Xing joins GAM’s emerging market equity team in Hong Kong, according to a statement, reporting to Robert Mumford, a portfolio manager in the team overseeing Asian and Chinese equity investment strategies.

Xing was most recently with Bank of China as a portfolio manager for private equity and previously also spent four years with Ernst & Young in Hong Kong and Denmark.

«We are excited about the prospects for emerging markets at this stage of the cycle as an investment grade laggard appealing to value, growth and yield investors,» said Tim Love, who leads the emerging market equity team out of London.