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Profile
Mr. Mark Himpoo is a Joint Chief Investment Officer at Playfair Asset Management Pty Ltd. He brings to Playfair more than 30 years of experience in equity markets, mostly in senior positions with leading asset management institutions in Australia.
Mr. Himpoo's most recent asset management role was as Senior Manager, Equities at UniSuper.
He played a key role in UniSuper’s transformation, which saw UniSuper amongst the first to pioneer the successful “internalisation” of direct investment.
He was responsible for managing a $4bn Australian Equities portfolio within UniSuper.
Mr. Himpoo also played a leading role in developing UniSuper’s proactive Capital Markets strategy.
Prior to this role, he was Head of Fundamental Equites at both Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and, prior to that, Blackrock.
Mark Himpoo active positions
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Former positions of Mark Himpoo
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BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Ltd.
 BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance BlackRock IM-Australia employs a disciplined process and analytical tools to construct portfolios from a variety of investment products across asset classes, market-caps, styles and geographies. Their enhanced-passive investment style is based mainly on an indexed approach and permits a large number of small, active stock positions in the portfolio, seeking to add value above the benchmark. The firm manages fixed-income portfolios with exposure to global bonds as well as bond portfolios denominated in various currencies. They partner with the BlackRock Solutions team to ensure standardized metrics for consistently assessing and managing risk in line with their clients' objectives. | Head-Equity Investments | 16/12/2009 |
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BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Ltd.
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance BlackRock IM-Australia employs a disciplined process and analytical tools to construct portfolios from a variety of investment products across asset classes, market-caps, styles and geographies. Their enhanced-passive investment style is based mainly on an indexed approach and permits a large number of small, active stock positions in the portfolio, seeking to add value above the benchmark. The firm manages fixed-income portfolios with exposure to global bonds as well as bond portfolios denominated in various currencies. They partner with the BlackRock Solutions team to ensure standardized metrics for consistently assessing and managing risk in line with their clients' objectives. | Finance |
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