On Thursday, Man GLG, the discretionary investment arm of asset manager Man Group stated, it has hired Andrew Swan from BlackRock to lead its ex-Japan equities business.

Swan will join the company in Sydney during the third quarter. He will manage a long-only Asia ex-Japan equity strategy and will report directly to Chief Executive Teun Johnston, said Man GLG in a statement.

At BlockRock, Swan served out of Hong Kong as head of the company’s Asia and global emerging market fundamental equities.

In a statement, BlackRock’s spokeswoman said Gordon Fraser and Stephen Andrews will become co-heads of global emerging market equities at the company; they will report to Belinda Boa, chief investment officer of global emerging markets.

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