Lester takes up the newly created role in July and, according to Nico Marais, head of multi-asset investments and portfolio solutions will serve to “deepen our experience and thought-leadership around portfolio construction, asset allocation, risk premia based investing.”
Lester joins from MSCI where he was head of fixed income and multi-asset class research, Schroders said and was previously an assistant professor of economics at Brown University and a visiting assistant professor of finance and economics and Columbia Business School
