Omar Negyal joins HSBC Global Asset Management's emerging markets team

Halbis, the active management specialist within HSBC Global Asset Management, has further strengthened its emerging markets expertise through the appointment of Omar Negyal.

He joins as a Senior Portfolio Manager and will work closely with the existing Global Emerging Markets equity team, headed by Nick Timberlake. Negyal, who will lead the development of HSBC’s alternative Emerging Markets capabilities, is based in London and reports to Timberlake.

He joins from the hedge fund specialist Lansdowne Partners, where he spent three and a half years as a senior member of the team managing long/short Global Emerging Markets funds.

Negyal has more than ten years experience in GEM equities, having previously spent seven years at F&C where he was a member of the Emerging Markets Asian team.  

HSBC Global Asset Management is among the world’s leading asset managers in this sector, with more than US$69bn emerging markets assets under management (as at end June 2009).