BlueBay Asset Management has made two new hires for its ESG investment team.

Emma Whiteacre has been appointed as Senior ESG Analyst reporting to My-Linh Ngo, Head of ESG Investment and Elena Koycheva has been appointed to the newly created role of ESG Institutional Portfolio Manager reporting to Simon Chennell, Partner and Institutional Portfolio Manager.

Whiteacre was previously Country Risk Analyst at Beazley Group and Koycheva has been with BlueBay for five years, most recently in the role of Senior RFP Writer within the Global Business Development team.