Wells Fargo AM recruits Schroders' multi-asset pair

Roles focus on portfolio construction

Wells Fargo Asset Management has hired Peter Weidner and Mark Brandreth from the Schroders multi-asset team, reuniting them with their former head of multi-asset investments Nico Marais.

Weidner will join as head of factor solutions and Brandreth will be a senior portfolio manager in the multi-asset solutions team.  They join head of multi-asset solutions Nico Marais, who left  Schroders in June 2016. He had worked as head of multi-asset investments and portfolio solutions teams. Based in London, Weidner and Brandreth will report to global head of portfolio solutions Dan Morris. Their new roles will focus on portfolio construction and the use of risk and alternative risk premia for clients seeking retirement income and wealth preservation.  Wells Fargo AM launch...