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Scott Licamele joins Red Star AM as fund broadens strategy mandate

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Scott Licamele, former Vice President of Equity Research Sales at Renaissance Capital, joined hedge fund Red Star Asset Management L.P., where his responsibilities include emerging markets equity research and business development. He is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Prior to working at Renaissance Capital, Licamele headed up North American equity sales and trading for Russia’s Alfa Bank in New York. He also marketed Alfa Capital Partners private equity fund to North American clients. Licamele is American by birth and fluent in Russian. He received an M.A. in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a B.A. in European History from Bard College.

Licamele, who has lived in Russia and Ukraine for over five years, has extensive experience operating in emerging markets.

He highlighted Red Star’s investment philosophy: “Our strategy is based on three principles. First, global demand for commodities, particularly China’s, will be supportive of commodities prices during the next decade. Second, America’s unprecedented expansionary fiscal and monetary policies will significantly weaken the dollar over the long-term, bolstering the price of dollar-based commodities. Lastly, numerous commodity sector stocks offer tremendous upside – specifically those large and growing companies which are under-represented in market indexes.”

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