ABOUT
Ronnie Moas is the Founder & Director of Research at Standpoint Research. The company currently advises and sells its research to pension funds, hedge funds, day-traders and asset management firms. Mr. Moas began his career on Wall Street as an analyst and market strategist at leading Nasdaq market maker Herzog Heine Geduld (Private Client Services). He was responsible for making sector, industry and stock recommendations, identifying arbitrage opportunities 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 (before the sale of HHG to Merrill Lynch was finalized) in order to start his own firm -- a ...More
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 500 times since development was completed in June 2003. The model has since then built an exceptional track record of more than 400 recommendations. Mr. Moas has authored, published and distributed more than 800 research reports 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. He also exited (mid-2007) and re-entered (late-2008) in a timely manner. Ronnie has issued more than 400 stock recommendations since July 2003. For the three years ended September 15, 2011, Standpoint Research was ranked # 7 versus 190 fund managers and research firms according to briefing.com, Motley Fool and Yahoo! Finance. They have a shared algorithm that factors in returns and accuracy, where accuracy is defined as the percentage of recommendations beating the S&P-500 by at least 500 basis points. They have been tracking Standpoint Research since October 2008 and have the 192 recommendations on file time-stamped that the firm made since then ... 73 are open, and 119 were closed (as of September 15, 2011). See rankings table on ‘Home’ page left side and track record documents on the ‘Performance’ page. Standpoint Research posted a gain of more than 3000 basis points versus the S&P-500 (since beginning operations in July 2003), a very impressive figure on a risk-adjusted basis as Standpoint Research does not take big sector bets, does not recommend small cap names and does not leave positions open to the point where performance figures can be skewed to the upside. Standpoint is now widely recognized as one of the top equity research firms in the U.S. and internationally. Ronnie has made multiple appearances on Bloomberg, and has been featured/quoted in The Wall St. Journal, Fortune magazine, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, streetinsider.com, benzinga.com and Barron’s (among others).
Mr. Moas received a Bachelor’s 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 to more than 40 countries since 2002, he designed this web site, is the owner of an articulate African Grey Parrot and a very large music collection of 1,500 cds.
