Hyung Kim has joined Kayne Anderson Rudnick, a boutique investment firm based in Los Angeles, as portfolio manager and senior research analyst, the firm announced.

Kim will help manage the firm’s emerging market small-cap strategy and will provide research coverage for the firm’s international small-cap strategy.

Kim joins the firm from Advisory Research Inc. in Chicago, where he served as an international equity analyst since 2010 covering the emerging and the non-U.S. developed markets.