HSBC Global AM names first Asia credit research head

HSBC Global Asset Management has hired Elizabeth Allen as Asia-Pacific head of credit research from rating agency Moody’s Investors Service. Based in Hong Kong, Allen left the rating agency last month to take up the newly created role on October 4. She now heads the regional team of credit analysts – which is four-strong, including her – and HSBC plans to add a fifth before the end of the year. Before Allen's appointment, Jim Veneau, investment director for fixed income and prev…