Larry Speidell is Chief Investment Officer of Frontier Global Partners, sponsor of the Frontier Market Select Fund, which invests in frontier stock markets around the world.
He travels widely and has researched companies in many places, including Abu Dhabi, Argentina, Bangladesh, Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire, Dubai, Ghana, India, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malawi, Mozambique, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Romania, Qatar, Senegal, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Larry is the author of the 2011 CFA Institute Research Foundation monograph, "Frontier Market Equity Investing: Finding the Winners of the Future."
From 2003 to 2006 he was Executive Vice President at Laffer Associates, an investment management and economic research firm. Prior to joining Art Laffer, Larry was a Partner and Director of Global Research and Management at Nicholas Applegate where he launched the firm’s emerging markets products and developed and enhanced the firm's international and global quantitative disciplines. Larry also spent eleven years as a Trustee at Batterymarch Financial Management where he was a portfolio manager for domestic and international strategies, was responsible for one of the first equity funds in China and worked on the development of a fund for Russia. As Senior Vice President and portfolio manager at Putnam Management Company from 1971 to 1983, Larry served as a member of that firm's Investment Policy Committee.
He is serves on the board of the CFA Society San Diego and is a past president of the Boston Securities Analysts Society and a past director of the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, D.C. Prior to the investment business, Larry earned his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University and his M.B.A. from Harvard University. He served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy.