South Carolina Retirement System

Investment Commission

 

Allen R. Gillespie is a Principal of GNI Capital, responsible for portfolio management and investment research for all of the company's managed assets. Mr. Gillespie is Managing Editor of the Supernova Stocks investment newsletter and contributes commentary to StreetInsight.com, a member of TheStreet.com's family of financial websites that is dedicated to the institutional investor. Previously, Mr. Gillespie was a Registered Representative at Robinson-Humphrey and Smith Barney from 1995 until 1997. In 1997, he began managing private client portfolios, and founded and managed the Blue Ridge Total Return Fund, which was sold to the Colonial Trust Company in 1999. In addition to his advisory work, Mr. Gillespie provided independent research to a New York-based hedge fund. Mr. Gillespie graduated cum laude from Washington & Lee University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, and he has been granted the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security Analysts, where he chairs the Investment Strategy Committee, and serves as a Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee for the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, New York.