The emerging and frontier specialist boutique was spun out of BNY Mellon in late 2011 and recently acquired BDT Invest.
As part of the deal, it took on the management of the Establishment Investment Trust, BDT Invest Asian Focus fund and BDT Invest Oriental Focus fund, with experienced Asian equities investors Henry Thornton and Simon Dobson joining Blackfriars from BDT.
The company’s chief executive Tom Waring recently told Investment Adviser it had big expansion plans, including a move to start selling its funds to discretionary managers – something which the institutionally-focused firm had yet to attempt.
Now the group has announced the hire of Ms Levashova as managing director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as frontier markets.
For the past five years, she has been head of central and eastern Europe, Middle East and African sales at BNP Paribas, and prior to that worked at Citibank Global Markets.
“As well as extensive experience both as an analyst and head of sales on the sell-side, Anastasia has strong buy-side experience and has most recently managed a successful long-short fund,” Mr Waring said.
“She brings a great deal of specialist knowledge to our global emerging market (GEM) and frontier team and is already settling in well.
“In addition to her role within our GEM team, we have a number of eastern European and Russian equity mandates from institutional clients, and these portfolios are also managed by Anastasia.”
