Chilean Asset Manager Appoints Argentine

Chile’s Moneda Asset Manager has named Javier Montero co-portfolio manager of international fixed income strategies, including Moneda deuda Latinoamericana and Moneda LatAm debt funds. He will work alongside Fernando Tisne. For 7 years Montero, an Argentine national, was a partner at Copernico Capital Partners where he held the position of portfolio manager, running event driven and credit strategies. Previously, he worked for 4 years as portfolio manager at Arauca Bit, an Argentine pension fund, where he was in charge of investment strategy for equity and corporate debt, as well as a member of the fund’s investment committee. As of July 2009, Moneda had more than $3.2bn in assets under management, including $2.2bn in discretional funds focused on LatAm equity and fixed income. Moneda also has a distribution agreement with The Capital Group Companies, based in the US.