Lawrence S. Speidell, CFA

Partner
Frontier Market Asset Management

Larry Speidell is founding partner, CEO and chief investment officer of Frontier Market Asset Management, sponsor of the Frontier Market Select Fund, which invests in frontier stock markets around the world.

He travels widely and has recently researched companies in many places, including Abu Dhabi, Bangladesh, Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire, Dubai, Ghana, India, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Qatar, Senegal, Trinidad & Tobago, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia.

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 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, served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy and was an auditor with Arthur Anderson & Co.