Schroder Investment Management has hired Ian Brady and two colleagues from Perpetual as part of its efforts to boost its US equity performance in London.

Perpetual colleagues Grant Cowley and Philip Chappell, as well as Ian Cooke from Legal & General will join Brady, who takes on the newly created position of head of US equities in London. Perpetual's US equity team comes as Amvescap finishes its integration of Invesco and Perpetual. At the end of last year Schroder