Barings hires Smart for research role

Barings has named Christopher Smart as the head of the newly created macro and geopolitics research unit

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Smart was previously an adviser to the Obama government on trade, investment and economic issues

Global financial services firm Barings has appointed Christopher Smart as the company’s head of macroeconomic and geopolitical research, a newly established unit within the firm that will draw on the input of more than 600 investment professionals managing more than $305 billion in public and private market strategies.

Smart was a senior policymaker for international economic affairs in the Obama administration, and between 2013 and 2015 he was the special assistant to the president at the

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