MSCI adds Ashley Lester as global head of research in London office

By Mary-Katherine Stinson

Lexington, Ky., May 4 – MSCI Inc. hired Ashley Lester as global head of research and as a member of MSCI’s executive committee, according to a press release.

Based out of the London office, Mr. Lester will be responsible for the development of MSCI’s research across the firm’s product lines and client segments, ensuring the continued development of research, analysis, and solutions that aim to help investors navigate a rapidly transforming investment landscape.

Lester joins MSCI from Schroders plc in London where he was most recently the founding head of systematic investments. He had also previously served in Schroders’ multi-asset investment group as head of multi-asset research, leading research into portfolio construction, asset allocation modeling and capital market assumptions.

Prior to that, he spent two years at MSCI as head of fixed income and multi-asset class research, where he managed MSCI’s global team of researchers covering fixed income, multi-asset class modeling and valuation.

He was also managing director and head of market risk analytics at Morgan Stanley, spent several years as an assistant professor of economics at Columbia Business School and Brown University and served as a graduate economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia.

MSCI is finance research, data and technology company based in New York City.

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