Schroder gets product focused

Nicola Ralston, Schroder Investment Management's London-based head of investment management, was in Hong Kong this week to explain to Hong Kong staff how a number of new hires at headquarters are designed to make the firm operate more smoothly as a global network.Schroders, which has $217 billion of funds under management worldwide ($30 billion of which is invested in Asian securities), has begun seriously grappling with the implications of adding an emphasis on product alongside an e…