Pictet-Emerging Local Currency Debt P dy GBP

Fund manager biography

Alper Gocer joined Pictet Asset Management in 2016 and is Head of Emerging Market Sovereign Debt and is lead of our Emerging Local Currency Debt strategies. Prior to joining the team in 2018, he was a Senior Investment Manager in the Total Return Emerging Markets team. Before joining Pictet, Alper was a Portfolio Manager at London Diversified Fund Management within the Global Macro Fund. Prior to LDFM, Alper was a Portfolio Manager at North Asset Management focused on Global Macro trading mainly in Emerging Markets. He began his career as a Quantitative Analyst at Citigroup. Alper has a Masters in Finance from the London Business School and a BSc. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.

Fund manager biography

Ali Bora Yigitbasioglu joined Pictet Asset Management in 2019 and is a Senior Investment Manager in the Emerging Market Debt team responsible for global emerging market debt and Asian debt portfolios based in Singapore. Prior to assuming his current role, Ali was a Senior Investment Manager for the Total Return Fixed Income team. Before joining Pictet he was Senior Portfolio Manager in Global Macro at Cambridge Strategy Asset Management in Monaco, responsible for FX and Rates and specialising in Asian markets. Ali graduated in Pure and Applied Maths at Cambridge University, and continued his graduate studies with Distinction at Imperial College in Finance and at Bilkent University in Finance and Econometrics. He completed his PhD in Mathematical Finance at ICMA Centre (Reading) and started his career in London at Lehman Brothers in 2004 as an FX Quantitative Analyst. From 2006 until 2010 he was an EM local rates, and a Hybrid Exotics trader at Lehman Brothers and Dresdner Kleinwort respectively.