By Andrei Skvarsky
Mark Robinson, former head of equity research at Italian bank UniCredit, has resurfaced at Wood & Company, an independent investment bank headquartered in Prague.
Robinson had a six-year stint as a fund manager with JP Morgan before taking the London-based position as global head of equity research and chief strategist at UniCredit, which he vacated this spring in a wave of departures from the Italian firm’s research team.
Wood & Co said Robinson will combine a managerial role with client service in his new role.
Robinson said in a statement Wood & Co is an ideal platform to become one of the leading regional equity houses in Emerging Europe in the next few years. He added: “Russia and Turkey become increasingly more important markets in an Emerging Market context and the expansion strategy of Wood & Co is following an enormous investor demand for a high quality product in these opaque markets.”
Robinson, an Oxford graduate, has been given a no. 3 individual ranking for Emerging European Equity Strategy in the 2010 Thomson Reuters Extel Survey after last year’s no. 1 position.
Wood & Co, which offers a large variety of services and has steel
giant Mittal among its clients, has offices in Bratislava, Warsaw and
Bucharest besides its headquarters in Prague.
