Standish Mellon Asset Management, a unit of Mellon Financial Corp., said Tuesday that it had hired an executive from Putnam Investments to direct its emerging market strategies.
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Alexander Kozhemiakin is to oversee Standish Mellon's emerging market debt investment and research team and co-manage its emerging market debt portfolios. He was a senior vice president and emerging market portfolio manager at Putnam, a Boston asset management company that recently agreed to be bought by a Canadian insurance company. Previously, he was an emerging markets sovereign analyst at Aeltus Investment Management in Hartford, Conn., and at Citibank in New York.
Standish Mellon, also a Boston company, had $160 billion of assets under management at Dec. 31.
