The Case for Investing Globally The Tyranny of Country-Centric Portfolios

Dimitri is President and Chief Investment Officer of Tesseract Partners, a global investment advisory firm he founded in 1996. His professor career spans over 30 years and includes such positions as Senior Economic Advisor and Chief International Economist with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York, Director of Global Investments and Senior Portfolio Manager with Kidder, Peabody & Co. in New York and London, as well as Director of Business Development and Senior Portfolio Manager with Lombard Odier & Cie, a large Swiss private bank in London and Geneva. Presently, Mr. Balatsos is a senior advisor to Knightsbridge Asset Management, an independent investment advisor based in Newport Beach, California. He was appointed by the Governor of Maine to the Board of Trustees of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System in September 2009.