A Pioneer and Leader in Emerging-Markets Investing

Josephine Jiménez, a recognized authority on the emerging markets, offers two decades of experience investing in developing economies.*  She serves as Portfolio Manager of Victoria 1522’s Select, Frontier, Small Cap, and Core strategies.

Ms. Jiménez was a founding partner of the emerging markets business at Montgomery Asset Management and managed the Montgomery Emerging Markets Fund from 1992-2003.  That fund grew to become one of the largest emerging markets products in the United States.  She continued to lead the fund and related products from 2003-2006 after Wells Capital Management acquired the business.

Ms. Jiménez formed Victoria Emerging Markets, LLC on September 6, 2006 shortly after her departure from Wells Capital for the purpose of creating Victoria 1522 Investments, LP.

Ms. Jiménez has been recognized for anticipating major market developments, including the Asian currency crisis and the Mexican Peso crisis.  She was early in predicting the Brazilian and Russian economies’ spectacular growth in the past two decades.  She also coined the term “frontier” emerging markets before it became a popular term to describe the undiscovered areas of emerging markets.

Ms. Jiménez forged new ground in the emerging markets well before most investors recognized the growth opportunity in this asset class.  In 1988, she served as Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Emerging Markets Management Corporation, one of the first investment management firms in the United States to offer globally-diversified emerging markets portfolios.   Prior to specializing in emerging markets, Ms. Jiménez worked for seven years as an Analyst of U.S. equities at Mass Mutual and Shawmut Bank.

Ms. Jiménez earned an M.S. in Management (1981) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a B.S. (1979) from New York University.  She served on MIT’s Board of Trustees from 1996–2001 and was a member of the Investment Committee (1999-2000) overseeing the university’s assets, including the endowment fund.