About Us
Dedicated to providing individual and institutional investors with customized separate account management with the objective of providing superior long-term returns.
35+ Years of Capital Market Experience & Fiduciary Commitment
Hemispheres Investment Management is a fee-based registered investment advisor (RIA). The firm is an independent RIA and is 100% employee owned. Hemispheres is registered in the state of California and Colorado and has a western U.S. client focus but also helps clients across the country with their investment needs.
Unlike mutual funds where client assets are pooled, you will have your own account and a plan designed specifically to accomplish your future financial goals and objectives. All client assets are custodied safely at Charles Schwab & Co.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Michael Hart, CFA
CEO & Portfolio Manager
Director of International Research
Michael Hart has over 35 years of capital market experience. From 2007 to 2013, he worked as a Managing Director at Tradewinds Global Investors, where he was a global equity and emerging market equity portfolio manager and a global securities analyst. Prior to Tradewinds, Michael founded and operated Hemisphere Asset Management from 2000 to 2007; the Firm managed global equity, fixed income, and balanced accounts for individuals and institutions. From 1989 to 2000, he helped manage the investment portfolios of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies as a Senior Portfolio Manager.
During this institutional tenure, Michael spent eight years working as a portfolio manager of emerging market debt investments and four years as a portfolio manager of international equities. While at Farmers, he helped increase the value of the insurer's international investments to over $1.1 billion from approximately $50 million; he also received Awards of Merit for generating outstanding returns as a portfolio manager of foreign fixed income and equity investments.
Rebecca Holden, CFA
Principal & Portfolio Manager
Director of Domestic Research
Rebecca Holden has 35 years of capital market experience. From 2003 to 2010, Rebecca was Portfolio Manager and Principal at Archer Capital Management in Los Angeles, California, managing domestic equity portfolios for individual clients. Prior to working at Archer, Rebecca was an Equity Analyst employed by Lehman Brothers in New York City following electric and gas utilities as well as energy companies. Before relocating to NYC, Rebecca was employed as a fixed income Portfolio Manager for the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies.
Rebecca was employed with prominent west coast financial institutions prior to employment on the Farmers accounts. Rebecca held positions as a credit analyst, banker structuring both private and publicly held bond issuances and later manager of one of the largest groups at the bank. In addition to the professional designations held, Rebecca has an MBA from Brigham Young University with a double emphasis in Quantitative Analysis and Finance (Investments).