Allan Duckett has joined as an institutional director, responsible for leading client engagement and business development in the west. Duckett previously worked at MFS as a director of West Coast institutional sales. Prior to that, he was a client relationship manager at AllianceBernstein.
 
Michael Patti also joins Schroders as an institutional director to work with middle-market institutions in the east and mid-west regions in addition to high-end intermediaries. He most recently served as a senior vice president of investment sales within BNY Mellon's wealth advisor group. Patti has also worked as a vice president of investment services in Fidelity Investments’ RIA group.  
 
Robert Soraparu, meanwhile, joins as a consultant relations director and will lead relationships with investment consultants in the mid-west. He most recently served as a senior vice president of global consultant relations at Nuveen Investments. Previously, Soraparu worked at Northern Trust Global Investments, covering consultants in the mid-west.  
 
Andrew Terry has joined as an institutional director to lead the institutional insurance business. Terry previously worked at AllianceBernstein as a new business development/relationship manager of insurance services in the institutional client group.  Earlier he worked at BlackRock as a relationship manager in the financial institutions group and earlier was an insurance equity analyst at Macquarie/Fox-Pitt Kelton.  
 
Lastly, Edward Wilkinson has been appointed as an institutional director to manage Schroders’ Taft-Hartley sales effort. He was most recently global head of client portfolio management for Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s $100 billion fundamental equity group. Prior to his role in product management at GSAM, Wilkinson spent 15 years leading Taft-Hartley teams at Invesco and Goldman Sachs.