BlueBay Asset Management, a manager of fixed income and alternative investments, has appointed Jana Velebova as a Portfolio Manager in the firm’s Emerging Markets Sovereign Team.

Jana has spent the past nine years managing active long-only and absolute return emerging market sovereign fixed income and currency portfolios. She began her fund management career at Threadneedle, before moving to Rogge Global Partners in 2010, where she became a Partner. Working both in London and Singapore, she was responsible for emerging market assets across a variety of active global fixed income portfolios.  
 
“We are very pleased to welcome Jana to our team,” says David Dowsett, Partner, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Co-Head of Emerging Markets. “Her extensive experience of managing emerging markets assets will have an important role to play in helping us to further develop our sovereign capabilities.”