This strategy exists in the multi-strategy vertical of Itaú Asset Management business lines and utilizes investment philosophy and process with the objective to generate net double-digit returns with roughly half the emerging markets’ volatility. The process is augmented by a proprietary sovereign model designed to anticipate changes in country risk as well as a broad contact network across EM, built over three decades of experience.
Our investment process combines fundamental and quantitative analysis to identify long and short opportunities across sectors and regions, aiming to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.
On-going risk management with five-tiered framework honed specifically to reduce Global Emerging Markets volatility, drawdowns and unintended bets.
The strategy is run by a seasoned team with more than 20 years of experience at a variety of institutional investment firms and hedge funds and with wide-reaching global contact network. The team leverages Itaú’s extensive in-house resources, including a large team of more than 20 economists and data scientists based in Brazil.
Lead Portfolio Manager - Emerging Markets Long Short Equities
see moreJamie joined Itaú USA Asset Management in November 2024 as a Global Emerging Markets Portfolio Manager. Before Itaú, he worked for nearly 20 years at Wellington Management, where he was a Partner and managed a market-neutral Global Emerging Markets Equity long/short hedge fund and a Latin America Equity Long-Only Fund, in which he posted top decile peer performance (2006-21). Jamie’s passion for Emerging Markets stems from his Peace Corps service in the mid-1990s, in Paraguay, where he gained a deep understanding of the development challenges and opportunities in the region. Later, he also worked for Oppenheimer & Co and SG Cowen as a Latin America equity research analyst and at Zero Stage Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that invested in pre-revenue technology companies. Jamie graduated from Harvard with an A.B. degree in Literature and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and lives in Miami, FL.
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