Chan takes up her role as global portfolio manager in November, after which she will be based in London, reporting to Virginie Maisonneuve, Schroders’ head of global and international equities.

Before joining RCM Chan spent close to a decade at BlackRock, holding various positions including senior portfolio manager of core and diversified institutional accounts, and manager of the US asset management giant’s global equity fund.

Schroders simultaneously announced the appointment of Chris Costanza as global sector specialist for financials, also within the global and international equities team. He has been with the firm since 2005, working as a financials analyst within the US large cap team while also collaborating with the global and international equities team.

In other recent hires at Schroders, earlier this month the firm bolstered its multi-asset investment business with the hire of Matthias Scheiber from Aethra Asset Management as a fund manager. At Aethra, Scheiber was fund manager and partner in charge of managing absolute return mandates and a hedge fund. In his new role, he reports directly to Schroders’ head of multi-asset investments, Johanna Kyrklund.