Senior Portfolio Manager joins Invesco

Independent investment management firm, Invesco, has announced the appointment of Ritchard Longmire as a senior portfolio manager in the Invesco Quantitative Strategies (IQS) group, effective January 2018.

Previously, Longmire spent over 10 years working as a portfolio manager with BlackRock and prior to this spent almost four years at Barclays Global Investors.

At Invesco he is joined in the IQS group by two new senior portfolio managers, Neil Lahy and Andre Roberts, and portfolio manager, Richard 'CJ' Tsai.

Commenting on the new hires, Invesco Australia CEO Martin Franc said: "We're delighted that Neil, Ritchard, Andre and Richard have joined the Invesco group. We're highly confident that this will be a great fit for them and for our business and clients."

"Their pedigree and track record are first class and will be integral in enhancing our Australian quantitative equities capability. We are seeing an increasing appetite in the Australian market for investment strategies that more systematically target risk-adjusted return outcomes."

All four of the new hires have previously spent 10 years working together at BlackRock, managing quantitative Australian equity portfolios.