Martin Currie poaches Axa exec for Asia sales role

UK-based Martin Currie Investment Management has hired Jean-Luc Eyssautier as sales and client services director for Asia to replace Chen Ee-Fang, who left for Northern Trust in October. Eyssautier was previously Hong Kong-based director of funds distribution for Asia at Axa Investment Managers, a role he moved from Paris to take up in mid-2009, as first reported by AsianInvestor. He will relocate to Singapore and start his new post in June. He will report to Kimon Kouryialas, A…