Huw van Steenis, the well-known and respected City financials analyst, has left Schroders little more than a year after joining the listed investment manager.

Van Steenis arrived at Schroders to much fanfare in the final quarter of 2016 but left the company late last year, according to people familiar with the matter. Van Steenis, who sits on the board of the English National Opera, joined from Morgan Stanley, where he was a managing director and head of European banks and diversified financials research.