MSCI Appoints Ashley Lester as Global Head of Research
03 Maio 2023 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision
support tools and services for the global investment community,
announced today that Ashley Lester has joined the firm as Global
Head of Research and as a member of MSCI’s Executive Committee.
Based in London, Mr. Lester will report to Baer Pettit,
President.
In this role, Mr. Lester will be responsible for the development
of MSCI’s research across the firm’s product lines and client
segments of asset managers, asset owners, banks, corporates, hedge
funds, insurance companies, and wealth managers. He will partner
closely with MSCI’s product, client coverage, technology, and
marketing teams to ensure the continued development of innovative
research, analysis, and solutions that aim to help investors
navigate a rapidly transforming investment landscape.
"Ashley is an innovative thinker and brings with him a wealth of
expertise as an investor, in business leadership and quantitative
and qualitative analysis,” said Mr. Pettit. “I am confident
that his background and in-depth knowledge of the financial markets
and risk analytics will prove invaluable as we continue to work
towards our mission of creating research-based solutions for our
clients.”
Mr. Lester joins MSCI with over a decade of extensive experience
in business leadership, investment management, and multi-asset
class investment research. Previously, he spent eight years at
Schroders plc in London, most recently as the founding Head of
Systematic Investments, in which he led a team managing over $20
billion in equity factor and ESG strategies. He had 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.
Before Schroders, Mr. Lester spent two years at MSCI as the 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, driving the research
agenda for MSCI’s market-leading risk solutions. Before joining
MSCI, Mr. Lester was 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. He holds a Bachelor of Economics with First Class
Honors and the University Medal from the University of Sydney and a
PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT).
“I am thrilled to be rejoining MSCI at a time of rapid change
throughout the investment industry globally,” said Mr.
Lester. “MSCI is uniquely well-placed to serve the needs of
investors and I am looking forward to leading the development of
our best-in-class investment insights.”
About MSCI Inc.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools
and services for the global investment community. With over 50
years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power
better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and
analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more
effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced
solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve
transparency across the investment process.
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