Jupiter Asset Management has bulked up its fixed income team with the hire of two analysts.

Alejandro Di Bernardo and Joel Ojdana have joined Jupiter this summer as the firm continues its effort to broaden its fixed income capabilities.

Di Bernardo will work as an emerging market debt analyst focusing on Latin America, primarily supporting fund manager Alejandro Arevalo on the Jupiter Global Emerging Markets Corporate Bond and the Global Emerging Markets Short Duration Bond funds.

He joins from Deutsche Asset Management, where he had worked as a high yield and leveraged loans analyst since 2012. Before that he worked at Citigroup and Accenture in South America.

Joel Ojdana worked as a credit analyst at Balyasny Asset Management and Seaport before moving to Jupiter.  Prior to that he spent seven years in investment banking, working for firms including Mizuho Securities and BNP Paribas.

He will work alongside Charlie Spelina, and will focus on generating US-based investment ideas for Jupiter’s unconstrained bond strategy, run by head of strategy Ariel Bezalel (pictured).

‘Fundamental credit research is very much at the heart of our fixed Income approach and we are delighted to be able to add two new analysts of such high calibre to the team,’ said Katharine Dryer, head of investments, fixed Income and multi-asset.

‘The ongoing development of our regional credit expertise is a key step in Jupiter’s initiative to strengthen and broaden the capabilities we offer clients in fixed income.’

Last month Jupiter reported that it had seen net outflows of £2.3 billion in the first half of the year as sentiment turned against its bond proposition.

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