Insparo Asset Management has nominated emerging markets veteran Graham Stock as chief strategist. Stock will join the core management team, led by chief investment officer Mohammed Hanif, which will be responsible for plotting the firm’s investment direction as it enters its third year. Primarily, Stock will be responsible for generating trading ideas and thematic strategies to capture the opportunities presented by Africa and the Middle East. Stock spent the last 12 years at JP Morgan in a range of senior roles with responsibility for areas such as Ceemea FX strategy in London and Latin American sovereign strategy in New York. For the last three years at JP Morgan, he has led an expansion of the research output and business activity in frontier markets in Africa.