HSBC's Batty to take on Standard strategy

Richard Batty is to join Standard Life Investments from the 7 July, adding further strength to the company's Strategy team that carries out internal research and analysis underpinning the House View. Batty, previously working at HSBC Securities, will work as a Global Strategist in the Strategy team where he will be reporting to Andrew Milligan, head of Global Strategy. As a part of his job, Batty will extend the current strong quantitative modelling techniques and capabilities of the team. He will especially look at measuring investor sentiment where he will be focusin...