Manulife Asset Management Monday announced it will be adding a new global emerging markets equity portfolio management team.

Kathryn Langridge and Philip Ehrmann will join the organization, effective Dec. 31, and Jan. 8, 2015, respectively. Langridge will be senior managing director, senior portfolio manager, and head of global emerging markets equity. Ehrmann will be senior managing director and senior portfolio manager, supporting Langridge.

Based in London, and following FCA regulatory approval, they will manage a global emerging markets equity strategy for institutional clients and certain wealth management businesses of Manulife and John Hancock. The team, who will report to Christopher Conkey, global chief investment officer, equity and fixed income, will also support other global equity strategies investing in emerging market equity.

Langridge and Ehrmann will both join the firm from Jupiter Asset Management in London. Langridge, who joined Jupiter in 2010, is the firm’s fund management director responsible for global emerging market equity funds. She began her career at the Jardine Group with Jardine Fleming, where she held a number of roles in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and London. She graduated from Cambridge University with a Master of Arts in English Literature.

Ehrmann, who joined Jupiter in 2006, is also a fund director and the firm’s joint head of Asian equities. He began his investment management career at INVESCO, where he rose to be head of emerging market equities. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Economics.