Vontobel nabs emerging market bond veteran from Degroof Petercam

Vontobel Asset Management has appointed Carl Vermassen as portfolio manager to the Emerging Markets Fixed Income team . Vermassen will be responsible for managing the Sustainable Emerging Market Local Currency Bond Fund alongside Thierry Larose, with whom he had previously worked at Degroof Petercam. With over 25 years' industry experience, he joins Vontobel Asset Management from the asset management division of Degroof Petercam in Brussels, where he was portfolio manager of the Emerging Market Sustainable Bonds fund alongside Thierry Larose. Larose, who launched the first sustaina...