Munirah Khairuddin

Chief Executive Officer

Principal Asset Management

Profile:

Munirah Khairuddin is the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of CIMB-Principal Asset Management Berhad (“CIMB-Principal”).

She joined CIMB-Principal in November 2006 and appointed as Deputy CEO in November 2008. Then, Munirah was responsible for the development of institutional, corporate and international business opportunities and institutional sales. She also served as the Director of CIMB-Principal and Commissioner of PT CIMB-Principal Asset Management in Indonesia. She previously worked as a G7 Economist and strategist for a Fortune 500 multinational oil and gas company. Prior to that, she was a fixed income portfolio manager for emerging markets at Rothschild Asset Management in London.

Munirah was appointed as CEO in August 2013. She has been instrumental in helping the company to grow its AUM, deepening its retail leadership with new focus in private retirement space, and maintaining consistent risk management and investment performance whilst elevating the overall customer experience. Munirah also played an integral part in the strategic business development initiatives of CWA. CWA was integrated into CIMB-Principal in August 2013 with an agency sales force of more than 6,000 unit trust consultants across 12 branches nationwide. Munirah also oversees both the retail and corporate businesses for Singapore.

Munirah is a Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) charterholder and holds the Capital Markets Services Representative’s License (“CMSRL”) for fund management. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Accounting & Financial Analysis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne UK. She was recently named as the CEO of the Year, Malaysia in the Asia Asset Management’s 2015 Best of the Best Awards for the second year in a row. Munirah was also selected as one of the recipients for the “Top 25 Women of Asset Management” awards by AsianInvestor in 2014. 

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