Tracey McNaughton was appointed chief investment officer at Escala in November 2019. In this role she has responsibility for strategic and tactical asset allocation and manager selection across all multi-asset funds and is chair of our investment committee and approved product list committee.
McNaughton began her career in financial markets in 1995, initially as an economist for CS First Boston in Sydney, where she worked for her economics professor from Newcastle University. She then moved into investment management with Westpac.
In 2006, McNaughton moved to Baillie Gifford in Edinburgh as a member of their fixed income team. After three years, family bought her back to Sydney, where she joined the fixed income and credit team at Colonial First State Asset Management.
In 2013, McNaughton took up the role of head of investment strategy at UBS Asset Management, where she was responsible for the suite of multi-asset funds offered to Australian-based institutional clients. After leaving UBS, McNaughton was briefly head of asset allocation at Wilsons Advisory.
