People Moves
Robeco Appoints Former Candrian Emerging Markets Debt Team
Robeco is in the process of rolling out hard and local currency sovereign debt strategies in the second half of 2024.
Robeco has appointed an
emerging market debt team: Diliana Deltcheva, Richard Briggs, and
Nicholas Sauer.
The arrival of the team comes as the firm gears up to launch hard
currency and local currency sovereign debt strategies during the
second half of this year.
Deltcheva, has been head of emerging market debt at Candriam
since March 2015. She started her career over 20 years ago at ING
Investment Management in the Netherlands as a quantitative fixed
Income analyst, where she became an EMD fund manager in 2006.
Between 2011 and 2015, she worked at F&C Investments as a
senior emerging fund manager.
Briggs, who has been co-portfolio manager of the Candriam EMD HC
sovereign strategies, was lead manager on the Candriam Emerging
Markets Debt Local Currencies strategy. He has almost 15 years of
experience in emerging markets with a focus on Latin American,
African and Asian countries. Prior to joining Candriam in
2022, he built up his EMD experience in several roles at GAM
Investments, CreditSights and Alliance Trust.
Sauer has been a co-portfolio manager at Candriam on the EMD HC
sovereign strategies since 2019. Previously, he worked at BMO
Asset Management as EMD specialist and portfolio manager.
