Michelle Blaauw

Ms. Michelle Blaauw is an Investment Analyst & Portfolio Manager at PortfolioMetrix Pty Ltd.
She joined Portfoliometrix in 2013 with over 12 years of experience in the financial services sector.
Ms. Blaauw began her career in 1995 as an Equity Research Analyst with top local stockbroker at the time, Barnard Jacobs Mellet.
After 3 years analyzing Small Cap Industrials and the IT Sector, she decided to broaden her exposure and tap her people skills with a move to trading.
Here she headed up the BJM Private Client Equity Trading Desk, which enabled her to share advice and give equity recommendations to private investors.
A promotion onto the main BJM Institutional Trading Desk in 1999 saw her gain 6 years of experience in Arbitrage Trading, Forex and Equity Sales Trading, servicing both local and international Asset Managers.
In 2004 she was approached to join Standard Bank’s Andisa Stockbrokers which later became Credit Suisse Standard Securities (a joint venture between Credit Suisse and Standard Bank).
She holds a BCom Honours degree in Investment Management, beginning with a year at the University of Colorado in the USA and later Wits, with her Honours degree through Unisa.