Robert  von Rekowsky

Robert von Rekowsky is a vice-president and portfolio manager for Fidelity Investments. Robert currently manages Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund for Canadian investors, as well as several institutional and retail funds available to U.S. and overseas investors.

Robert joined Fidelity's fixed-income division in 1989. In 1995, he moved along with the emerging markets debt group into the company's high-income division as a sovereign debt analyst. Robert continued in that role while working out of Fidelity's London office from 1996 to mid-1998, when he moved into European equity research. From mid-1998 to 2002, Robert split his time as a research analyst between emerging and pan-European equities. During this period, Robert was also sector leader in London for emerging markets.

From 2002 to 2004, Robert was an associate fund manager for the emerging markets funds, responsible for the EMEA region. In 2004, Robert relocated to Boston to assume management for all of Fidelity's global emerging market equity funds.

Robert received a BA from the University of New York at Albany (SUNY) in 1988 and an MA from Northeastern University in 1992. He received an MSc in finance from Brandeis University in 2005. Robert wrote “Investor's Outlook” for the Russian Investment Review's June-October 2003 edition. He was voted “Best of the Buyside” by Institutional Investor magazine in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Robert is a coordination board member for the Armenia 2020 Project, a member of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations and a member of World Boston.