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BNP Paribas Investment Partners announces the appointment of Jean-Charles ‘JC’ Sambor as Deputy Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income. He is based in London and reports to L. Bryan Carter, Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income.
BNP Paribas Investment Partners’ emerging market fixed income team consists of nine investment professionals and manages assets totalling USD 1.2 billion[1] across a range of mutual funds and segregated client accounts.
In this new role, JC will support Bryan in the management of all portfolios and the ongoing development and implementation of the investment process, as well as contributing to emerging market fixed income asset allocation decisions for all benchmarked and absolute return global multi-sector portfolios. He will also be involved in the promotion of existing funds and mandates and the innovation of new product offerings.
JC Sambor has 15 years’ experience of emerging markets, covering research, strategy, portfolio management and risk management, and has had a strong focus on Asia throughout much of his career. He joins from the Institute of International Finance (IIF), where he was Asia-Pacific Regional Director and CEO of IIF APAC Ltd, based in Singapore, advising central banks, government policy makers, supranational organisations, asset managers and regulators.
Previously he was Managing Director and Head of Global Emerging and Frontier Fixed Income at Everest Capital, where he launched and managed an absolute return emerging market debt fund and a frontier fund. Prior to this he was Senior Vice President of TCW (Trust Company of the West) Emerging Markets group in Los Angeles, responsible for Asia emerging markets fixed income and currency strategy. He began his financial career at Société Générale, where he was an emerging markets analyst covering Asia and Africa, and has also taught at various universities including Sciences Po in Paris.
A native French speaker, JC is also fluent in English and speaks intermediate Mandarin. He is an alumnus of École Normale Supérieure and holds an MA in International Economics from Pierre Mendes France University and a BA and MA in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University. He has also been a graduate student at UCLA and Beijing Normal University.
L. Bryan Carter, Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, comments:
“We are very pleased to welcome JC Sambor to the BNP Paribas Investment Partners Emerging Markets Fixed Income team. Investors increasingly view the asset class as attractive again and JC’s considerable experience gained within a range of organisations will enable us to further broaden our research capability and differentiate our investment offering.”
