11 January 2013
San Francisco, California. Artisan Partners today announced portfolio manager changes to its Global Equity team. Barry Dargan, lead portfolio manager of Artisan Global Equity Strategy, is leaving Artisan Partners effective immediately. Mark Yockey, founder of the Global Equity team at Artisan Partners and portfolio manager of Artisan Global Equity Strategy, will continue in that role. In addition, Charles Henri-Hamker and Andrew Euretig have been named portfolio managers on the strategy. There is no change to the strategy’s investment objective, philosophy and process.
‘‘We are pleased to have such a deep and talented Global Equity team all solely dedicated to the investment philosophy Mark Yockey put in place in 1995. Charles Hamker has been working with Mark since 2000 and Andrew Euretig since 2005. This experience together, working within a common investing philosophy, creates great continuity in decision making,’’ said Eric Colson, Artisan Partners CEO. ‘‘We appreciate Barry Dargan’s contributions to the Global Equity Strategy and wish him well.’’