Bailey spent 13 years as head of UK wholesale distribution at AXA Investment Managers. Prior to that, he was a sales director at Framlington Group. He has also served in senior sales roles at Insight Investment, formerly Rothschild Asset Management, and Kleinwort Benson.

Union Bancaire Privée
Union Bancaire Privée has named Biola Babawale as emerging market sovereign debt strategist - a newly-created role - in which she will join a team of eight. Based in London, she will be responsible for sovereign debt research and work closely with Thomas Christiansen, head of sovereign and frontier debt at UBP.

Babawale has moved from Vanguard Asset Management, where she spent eight years in various posts, most recently as a senior research associate covering the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa market as part of the fixed income group. Before that, she was an economist in Vanguard AM’s investment strategy group. She started her career as an economist at Oxford Economics.

Denis Girault, head of emerging market debt for UBP said that her skill set would help build on current momentum and "the successful launch of our frontier bond strategy six months ago,” which has around $160 million in AuM.

Tabula
European ETF provider Tabula Investment Management has hired Abdallah Muhammad to lead client development in the Nordic region.

Muhammad joins the fixed-income specialist from Invesco where he was head of Nordic ETF business development. Before that he held the same post at ETF provider Source . He has also been in CRM roles for Nordics at Janus Capital and BlackRock.