Ronnie Moas Profile

Ronnie Moas is the President & Director of Research at Standpoint. The company currently advises and sells its research to pension funds, hedge funds and asset management firms. Mr. Moas began his career on Wall Street as an analyst and market strategist at Herzog Heine Geduld. He was responsible for making sector, industry and stock recommendations, identifying arbitrage opportunities, options and hedging strategies. During his years at HHG, he demonstrated remarkable accuracy with his market forecasts and stock recommendations. Mr. Moas left HHG in late 2000 a few months after correctly forecasting the Nasdaq collapse in a timely manner.

Mr. Moas spent the next few years developing and back-testing a 155-variable equity valuation and diagnostic model. The model has been run more than 140 times since development was completed in June 2003. The model has since then built an exceptional track record. Mr. Moas has authored, published and distributed more than 300 research reports and notes to date. In 2002, he wrote a 284-page research report back-testing more than one dozen different trading strategies on 20 years of data. In 2003, Mr. Moas was one of the first analysts on Wall Street to forecast bull markets in commodities, Brazil, Russia, India and China. Ronnie has issued more than 190 stock recommendations since July 2003. Through January 2007, the average return on those open-ended recommendations was 43.88% with a standard deviation of 55.39%.

Mr. Moas received a Bachelors degree in Economics and Business with Honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Masters degree in Finance and Investments from Baruch College, City University of New York. Mr. Moas was born in New York and lived in Israel from 1983-1994. He returned to New York after completing a three-year Israeli military service in artillery and intelligence with rank of Sergeant. Before returning to the United States in 1994, Ronnie worked at Shuki Weiss International Concert Productions where a few of his production credits included the Haifa Seaport Blues Festival, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Buddy Guy and Suede. Ronnie has traveled more than 100,000 miles since 2003. He is the owner of an articulate African Grey Parrot and a very large collection of music recordings.