Steven Bloom

STEVEN BLOOM is Vice President and Senior Research Analyst/Portfolio
Manager for HSBC Asset Management. He joined the US Equity team in June
2000 as a senior member of the portfolio management group. As head of
the US Tech team, Mr. Bloom also helps manage the firm’s global TMT
Fund. He has responsibility for the telecommunications services and
equipment, data networking, and semiconductors sectors. Mr. Bloom has 14
years of multi-industry research experience on the sell side. He worked
for seven years at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, most recently as a
Principal, covering various real estate sectors, including multifamily,
lodging and specialty finance. The real estate investment trust (REIT)
team ranked number one in the 1999 Greenwich Associates poll and placed
runner-up in the 1999 Institutional Investor poll. Mr. Bloom previously
held analytical positions at Prudential Securities (chemicals) and F.
Rothschild (pharmaceuticals and technology). Mr. Bloom earned a BS
degree in Applied Economics and Business Management from Cornell
University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and member of AIMR and
the New York Society of Security Analysts.