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Mr. Mark L.
Syn, CFA MBA, is a Portfolio Manager at MFS International Singapore Pte Ltd. He is also an Investment Officer at the firm.
He is a member of the portfolio management team of the firm's Global Real Estate strategy.
He is responsible for final buy and sell decisions, portfolio construction, risk and cash management, and he participates in the research process and strategy discussions.
He also has research analyst duties following global real estate securities.
He is based in Singapore.
He joined MFS in 2018 as a research analyst and was named a portfolio manager in 2022.
Mr. Syn was previously a Managing Director at Wellington Management, serving for 10 years as a Co-Portfolio Manager & Analyst.
Prior to this, he was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, serving as a Portfolio Manager & Analyst for eight years.
He began his career in the financial services industry in 1997, working for one year as a Corporate Banking Relationship Manager at Citibank before returning to school for his second master's degree.
He earned a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from London Business School and a Master of Engineering degree in civil engineering with First Class honors from Imperial College, London.
He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Mark Syn active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
MFS International Singapore Pte Ltd.
MFS International Singapore Pte Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance MFS Singapore employs a variety of methods to evaluate securities, including fundamental analysis and quantitative analysis. The firm uses derivatives primarily to increase or decrease exposure to a particular market, segment of the market, or security to increase or decrease interest rate or currency exposure, or as an alternative to direct investments. | Portfolio Manager-Equities | 01/01/2018 |
MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc.
MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance MFSI primarily manages long-only investment strategies. To a lesser extent, the MFS Global Group manages some strategies that may employ both long and short positions as a principal strategy and/or manages exposure to asset classes, markets, and currencies, primarily using derivatives. The firm utilizes various investment techniques to implement their investment strategies. In addition, they may use exchange-traded and OTC derivatives to manage currency or interest rate exposure. | Portfolio Manager-Equities | - |
Former positions of Mark Syn
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Wellington Management Singapore Pte Ltd.
Wellington Management Singapore Pte Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance WM Singapore is an active manager that performs in-house research to invest in a range of equity, fixed-income and multi-asset approaches across markets, capitalizations and styles. The firm follows a Global Value approach to invest in the stocks of financially sound but out-of-favor companies that provide above-average total return potential and generally sell at below-average price/earnings multiples. They develop multi-asset client solutions, combining top-down asset allocation with bottom-up security selection and complement investment programs with a range of alternative approaches, investing in metals, agriculture, climate change, emerging markets equity and debt. | Analyst-Equity | 01/09/2018 |
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance GSAMS offers a broad range of products across asset classes, regions and the risk spectrum. The firm uses both a top-down strategy for cross-sector, duration, country and currency decisions and bottom-up strategy for sub-sector allocation and security selection decisions. The strategy teams collaborate to build a diversified portfolio of individual securities consistent with each client’s overall risk and return objectives. | Portfolio Manager-Equities | - |
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MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc.
MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance MFSI primarily manages long-only investment strategies. To a lesser extent, the MFS Global Group manages some strategies that may employ both long and short positions as a principal strategy and/or manages exposure to asset classes, markets, and currencies, primarily using derivatives. The firm utilizes various investment techniques to implement their investment strategies. In addition, they may use exchange-traded and OTC derivatives to manage currency or interest rate exposure. | Finance |
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance GSAMS offers a broad range of products across asset classes, regions and the risk spectrum. The firm uses both a top-down strategy for cross-sector, duration, country and currency decisions and bottom-up strategy for sub-sector allocation and security selection decisions. The strategy teams collaborate to build a diversified portfolio of individual securities consistent with each client’s overall risk and return objectives. | Finance |
MFS International Singapore Pte Ltd.
MFS International Singapore Pte Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance MFS Singapore employs a variety of methods to evaluate securities, including fundamental analysis and quantitative analysis. The firm uses derivatives primarily to increase or decrease exposure to a particular market, segment of the market, or security to increase or decrease interest rate or currency exposure, or as an alternative to direct investments. | Finance |
Wellington Management Singapore Pte Ltd.
Wellington Management Singapore Pte Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance WM Singapore is an active manager that performs in-house research to invest in a range of equity, fixed-income and multi-asset approaches across markets, capitalizations and styles. The firm follows a Global Value approach to invest in the stocks of financially sound but out-of-favor companies that provide above-average total return potential and generally sell at below-average price/earnings multiples. They develop multi-asset client solutions, combining top-down asset allocation with bottom-up security selection and complement investment programs with a range of alternative approaches, investing in metals, agriculture, climate change, emerging markets equity and debt. | Finance |
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