The Asian investment house has added to its sales teams in Hong Kong and London.

Mirae Asset Global Investments, the Asian emerging markets equity specialist, is adding to its sales teams in Hong Kong and London to capitalise on rising assets in its funds range.

Olivier Mampouya has joined the London team and Eldora Wong has joined the Hong Kong operation, Mirae Asset Management said in a statement yesterday.  

Mampouya will be working alongside head of UK sales Nic Jones in covering the UK client base. He previously worked in business development at asset managers such as Wellington Management, State Street, Fidelity and Schroders.

Wong joins the Hong Kong team as a sales director for institutional clients. She joins from Robeco where she worked in institutional business development. Prior to that, she worked at Invesco, RCM and started her business development career at HSBC Investments.

The appointments follow that of Sander Van Ouwerkerk as head of Benelux and Nordic sales in February 2015.

AUM in the region has grown by a substantial amount in Q1. Further expansion is planned this year, with new hires likely in both Europe and globally.

“The additions come after an extremely positive start to 2015 for AuM growth in Mirae Asset’s core Luxembourg SICAV range,” the firm said; assets under management have grown from around $1 billion at the start of this year to around $1.7 billion today.