CIO and Head of the Strategic Equity Team
Alister Hibbert is CIO and Head of BlackRock's Strategic Equity Team within the Fundamental Equity division of BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group. He is a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee.
Mr. Hibbert is founder and lead portfolio manager of the BlackRock Strategic Equity Hedge Fund Strategy. Under his leadership, the strategy has grown to be BlackRock’s flagship equity hedge fund, winning multiple awards including Eurohedge Fund of the Year. He is also founder and lead portfolio manager of the BlackRock Global Unconstrained Equity Strategy.
Prior to establishing the Strategic Equity Team in 2020, Mr. Hibbert was a senior member of BlackRock’s European Equity Team, helping to build the industry’s leading European equity team. As portfolio manager of the European Dynamic Strategy, Mr. Hibbert was a platinum winner in the Portfolio Adviser Fund Awards on multiple occasions and won Lipper Europe awards for 10 consecutive years. He was admitted to the FE Alpha Manager Hall of Fame in 2019.
Mr. Hibbert joined BlackRock in 2008 having previously served as an investment director with Scottish Widows Investment Partnership from 2005 where he was responsible for continental European portfolios. Prior to this, Mr. Hibbert was a European equity portfolio manager with Oechsle International (2004-2005) and Invesco Perpetual (1996-2004). He began his career with accountants Ernst & Young in 1994.
Mr. Hibbert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Bristol, UK, where he frequently gives talks to current students interested in careers in financial services. He is a Director of the Children’s Education Foundation, assisting schools in unofficial settlements in Africa, and serves on the Development Committee of Caterham School, UK.
