TIMOTHY SEYMOUR
Founder and Managing Partner
Seygem Asset Management
CNBC Contributor


Tim Seymour is the founder and Managing Partner at Seygem Asset Management and a CNBC contributor.  Seygem Asset Management focuses on investing throughout the global emerging markets asset class.  Seymour recently launched Seygem Global, a web based business that provides analysis, trading insight, and trading access into global and emerging markets.

With a view that emerging and developing economies will continue to outpace the economic growth and advancement of developed economies, Seymour has devoted a career to investing in the dominant markets of tomorrow, today. Seymour’s career has included significant experience in both alternative asset management (hedge funds) and capital markets, having launched two hedge funds, and built the largest Russian broker dealer in the USA.

Seymour has worked and invested through defining global market events such as “Euro Convergence”, “Asian/Russian Financial Crisis of ’97-’98”, through to the subsequent re-rating of the EM asset class.  Through these experiences, Seymour has forged a balanced view of the top down and bottom up factors that have driven these markets historically, and where growth will be found in the next decade.

Prior to Seygem, Seymour founded and was a Managing Partner at Red Star Asset Management, which managed a “long/short” hedge fund investing in Eastern Europe and Russia.  At its inception, Red Star was one of the first hedge funds to operate in the region, focusing on capital preservation, low volatility via traditional alternative asset class strategies.  At Red Star, Seymour served as the Chief Operating Officer, Portfolio Manager, and was a member of the investment committee.

Prior to founding Red Star, Seymour was a partner and Managing Director at Troika Dialog, Russia’s largest investment bank. Seymour moved to Moscow in 1998 as Head of Fixed Income for Troika Dialog, and was later appointed Global Head of Sales for all products.  In January 2000, Seymour moved from Moscow to New York to found Troika Dialog USA, a full-service NASD/SEC regulated brokerage firm and subsidiary of Troika Dialog Group. At the time of his departure, Troika Dialog USA was the largest Russian brokerage operating in the US in terms of total volume turnover in equity, fixed income and derivative products.

Seymour started his career at UBS, focusing on international credit (cash, swaps, forex) in a specialized hedge fund group (New York). Seymour completed the firm’s training program after graduating with an MBA in international finance from Fordham University. Seymour received his undergraduate degree at Georgetown University.