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Published on: 4/1/2007
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Robert Hsu
Robert Hsu is the founding managing director of Absolute Return Capital Advisors LLC., and executive editor of www.themoneyfactory.com, a financial website that focuses on global macro investing.Prior to forming Absolute Return Capital in 2004, Mr. Hsu managed personal funds as a private investor with an average annual return of 25% over the past five years, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by over 200%.
Before retiring in 1999 to become an independent investor at age 30, he served as a money manager at Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Strategy Group, the absolute return investment division of Wall Street's leading investment bank with $4 billion under management.Mr. Hsu has professional experience trading stock, financial, currency and commodity markets across the world, in both cash and derivative instruments.Before trading for Goldman Sachs, he was a quantitative analyst and trader for a top-tier billion-dollar global macro hedge fund.
Mr. Hsu has a record of making money consistently in both up and down markets.For instance, in 2002, the worst year for the S&P 500 Index since 1974, his account gained 30.3% versus down 22% for the S&P 500 Index.On the flip side, in 2003, when the S&P 500 Index was up 26%, Mr. Hsu's account also gained 26%.