EFG AM hires GAM China manager

EFG Asset Management, the $7 billion affiliate of Zurich-based private bank EFG, has hired Mansfield Mok to establish a nascent investment capability in Asian equities. Mok joins from GAM, where he had been a senior fund manager with co-responsibility for the GAM Star China Equity Fund. He worked there for five years after stints at Munich Re Asia Capital Management, ING Barings Securities and Hoare Govett. GAM says Mok leaves at the end of this month. Although there are no plan…