Sheldon McIntyre
Prior to completing his university degree Sheldon was selected by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to join a team of university students with a mandate of introducing new initiatives directed towards building a solid working relationship between business and universities in Chile. Following graduation he was recruited by AIESEC Chile to lead initiatives to broaden corporate and NGO support of educational programs at select universities.
Sheldon began his equity trading career at Tanhnuz Investment Management, headquartered in Santiago, Chile. The boutique provides advisory and discretionary wealth management services to ultra high-net-worth individuals, corporations, family trusts and distinguished Chilean leaders. At Tanhnuz, he quickly rose to Partner responsible for the discretionary asset management division. Sheldon also managed the institutional clearing / trading relationships with Pershing, JP Morgan, Schroders, Barings and Fleming.
Looking to broaden his international experience, Sheldon joined Firstmark as a Portfolio Manager. The New York based long / short hedge fund focuses exclusively on equities that trade on the major United States equity exchanges. Heworked closely with the Chief Investment Officer to generate superior risk-adjusted returns and outperformed the Barclay Hedge Equity Long / Short Index during his tenure.
Sheldon returned to Chile in mid-2002 and founded Andean Capital Partners, one of the first SEC registered investment advisors in Chile. Over 13 years the firm recorded a 21% annualized return using a proprietary investment program based on U.S. equities, ADRs and global macro ETFs.As a complement to his discretionary wealth management firm he founded 360° Virtual Advisor Live in 2011 as a premium, real-time investment advisory service that blends global macro research with bottom-up stock selection to generate institutional quality market analysis, actionable trade recommendations and commentary for individual traders from around the world.
Sheldon is a Contributor to See It Market, a widely followed investment site. His articles have been re-published in Yahoo! Finance, Business Insider and Benzinga. In 2014 he was recognized as one of the top ‘25 Traders On Twitter’ by Trading IQ and one of the ‘Best Technical Traders To Follow’ by StockTwits in 2015. His core competencies include swing and position trading, proprietary algorithm design, industry cycle analysis and stock leadership modelling.
Sheldon is a graduate of the University of Victoria, Canada where he read International Political Economy with distinction. His academic focus was Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, Taiwan and the Koreas. Sheldon is fluent in English and Spanish.
Sheldon is well-read in geopolitics and international security. He is interested in global education policy and trends. He practices high performance sports training and is an avid ice hockey fan.