Matheson partner Tara Doyle has been named one of Ireland’s leading women in hedge funds.

Ms Doyle appears in The Hedge Fund Journal’s latest biennial 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds report, sponsored by EY.

She heads Matheson’s asset management and investment funds group, the largest asset management group in Dublin with 12 partners and over 60 fee-earners.

According to the report, the group advises Irish-domiciled investment funds represented 29 per cent of the assets domiciled in Ireland.

Ms Doyle chairs the Irish Funds Industry Association and is a member of the Government’s International Financial Services Centre Funds Group, which advises on legislative and other changes to facilitate the growth of the Irish investment funds industry.

She has spoken at a number of international financial services conferences and Irish Funds seminars in Milan, Frankfurt, New York, Boston, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore and has contributed to financial services and investment industry journals.