RESEARCH AGENCY, INC.

STACIA HACHEM
Stacia Hachem has been monitoring Emerging Markets for over 20 years. She began her career as a Foreign Exchange Sales Trader at J. P. Morgan in New York and London. She later covered Emerging Markets for Euromoney and Institutional Investor from London and the Middle East. The highlight of this period was organizing the first ever investor conference in East Berlin which all the Soviet satellite countries’ ministers participated. She returned to the U.S. to build a global emerging markets program for the Economist Intelligence Unit and oversee the Business China Group. During this time she worked closely with Central Bank Governors, Ministers of Finance and Economy, the CEO’s of local companies and the Heads of International of Multinationals.

For the past ten years, she has been an independent research consultant advising clients on emerging markets, buy-side research as well as the optimization of buy-side research. Clients have included large US Hedge Funds such as Kingdon, SAC, Gabelli, Moore and others; Mutual Fund Investors such as Putnam, Fidelity, Amvescap, Legg-Mason and others; Research Firms such as Jupiter Communications and J.D. Power & Associates.

The past 2 years have been concentrated on sub-advising on a Russian and Central European focused fund for a large NY/CT based hedge fund.

She has been a Returning Scholar in Economics at the University of Chicago. She received her Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University in International Finance & Middle East Studies (1987) and her BA cum laude in International Business from Mundelein College of Loyola University.

THE TEAM
Miss Hachem works with a team of independent consultants focusing on in-country investment opportunities & quantitative research. Consultants are retained based on client demand.

An extensive rolodex, based primarily in EMEA countries, is put to client use to obtain in-country opinions on companies, industries, sectors and countries.

Miss Hachem works with consulting analysts based in the United States to build out the Fusion & Macro Emerging Market Screen for internal and client use to build her model portfolios & generate ideas.

Investments in foreign securities have additional risks than securities of U.S. companies including but not limited to currency fluctuations, price fluctuations, changes in foreign tax law and investment regulations, and political instability.


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