Victoria 1522 Investments, LP, founded on August 10, 2007, is an investment management firm exclusively focused on the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Victoria 1522 offers separately-managed accounts that enable institutional and high net worth individual investors to focus on areas of potential opportunity in emerging markets:  frontier economies, small-cap companies, core (diversified) emerging markets, and select (concentrated) strategies. 

The firm manages the Victoria 1522 Fund, a mutual fund registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  The Victoria 1522 Fund seeks to offer a new and unique opportunity for individual and institutional investors to invest in equities across the market capitalization spectrum of mainstream and frontier emerging markets through active portfolio management.

Victoria 1522 Investments, LP is a registered investment advisor under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Josephine S. Jiménez, CFA, a pioneer in emerging-markets investing since 1988, leads an experienced  team that has successfully collaborated in the past.  Ms. Jiménez has managed billions of dollars for both individual and institutional investors since 1988.  From 1992-2003, Ms. Jiménez, managed the first no-load mutual fund focused on emerging markets, the Montgomery Emerging Markets Fund.  Today, she remains on the leading edge as one of the first investors in the frontier markets and the emerging markets small cap universe.  She leverages the expertise and keen insight she has developed since the late 1980s, when the current mainstream emerging markets were once the frontier.

The firm’s flagship fund, Victoria 1522 Fund, reflects Ms. Jiménez’s experience and market insight that inspired her to create an innovative way to seek the long-term opportunities unfolding in this asset class.  Learn more about the Fund’s strategy.

Victoria 1522 Investments aims to generate significant long-term returns for its investors.  Integrating first-hand research and insights with expertise developed over decades, the team invests primarily in the equities of what it considers to be high-quality companies in industries and economies that it believes have the greatest growth potential in the emerging markets. Victoria 1522’s investment process uses a combination of macroeconomic analysis to identify major themes and rigorous fundamental research to pinpoint the strongest companies that may benefit most from these and other trends.  Recognizing opportunities well before they become consensus is the cornerstone of the firm’s strategy.