General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> March 14, 2005
STEVE SHOBIN is Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Strategist of
AmeriCap Advisers, LLC. He is a veteran of more than three decades on
Wall Street where he was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, Inc.
and a First Vice President at Merrill Lynch. He was a senior member of
the research divisions at both firms. During his tenure, he developed
unique methodologies for projecting the long-term trends of stocks and
industry groups, incorporating various techniques for controlling risk.
He has advised some of the world's largest mutual funds, hedge funds,
and institutional investment managers on stock selection and portfolio
structuring. He has been a member of the Institutional Investor All-
American Research Team in 1997, 1998, 1999, and received a number one
ranking in the year 2000 just as he was leaving Lehman to join AmeriCap. Profile
TWST: Steve, would you start with an overview of AmeriCap Advisers, itshistory and investment philosophy?
Mr. Shobin: AmeriCap Advisers, LLC, is a registered investment advisor
that manages