Schroders appoints Firetrail’s Doyle for investment director role
Anthony Doyle, who departed Firetrail Investments last month, has joined Schroders as its investment director for global equities.
Based in Schroders’ Sydney offices, Doyle will represent the fund manager’s global equity capabilities across Australia and New Zealand.
In particular, his focus will include the recently launched global equity alpha strategy and the global quantitative equity products strategies that have garnered over $14 billion of support from Australian clients.
Doyle will report to Ray Macken, Schroders’ head of client group for Australia and New Zealand.
The investment director brings more than two decades of experience working in asset management across numerous client-facing roles in institutional and intermediary channels.
Most recently, Doyle spent nearly three years at Firetrail Investments as its head of investment strategy, where he also managed the investment and product specialist team, overseeing distribution, marketing, client service, and product development for Firetrail.
Prior to this, Doyle served as a director and cross-asset investment specialist at Fidelity, and previously worked at M&G Investments, Pioneer Investments and Macquarie Group.
It was announced in December last year that Doyle, portfolio manager Oscar Hutchinson, investment specialist Chris Robinson, and global equities analyst Georgia Locke had stepped down from the company.
Simon Doyle, chief executive of Schroders Australia, said the new addition will be critical to the wider Schroders team as the firm looks to bolster its global equity capabilities in Australia.
“Anthony will have a strong client-facing role and will be the bridge between our clients and our global equities portfolio managers locally and globally,” the CEO said.
“This will enhance our ability to deliver to the overall investment needs of our clients and provide solutions through our select, high quality global equity investment capabilities.”
Last September, Schroders confirmed it had named Richard Oldfield as its global chief executive, following the departure of Peter Harrison, effective from 8 November 2024.
Oldfield was previously appointed as a director and chief financial officer at Schroders in October 2023, having also worked as a global markets leader at PwC where he spent over 20 years including on its UK executive board.
Two months later, the global fund manager formed a new group executive committee to accelerate its growth strategy.
This consists of eight existing internal executives alongside the appointment of Ed Houghton, who formally commenced at Schroders as the group head of strategy and investor engagement in mid-January 2025.
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