Dr. Lacy Hunt

Dr. Lacy H. Hunt, an internationally known economist, is Executive Vice President of Hoisington Investment Management Company, a firm that manages over $5 billion for pension funds, endowments, insurance companies and others.Lacy Hunt is the author of two books, and numerous articles in leading magazines, periodicals and scholarly journals.� Included among the publishers of his articles are. Barron�s, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, the Journal of Finance, the Financial Analysts Journal and the Journal of Portfolio Management.Previously, he was Chief U.S. Economist for the HSBC Group, one of the world�s largest banks, Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Fidelity Bank and Vice President for Monetary Economics at Chase Econometrics Associates, Inc.� A native of Texas, Dr. Hunt has served as Senior Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.�He earned his BA from Sewanee: the University of the South (1964), his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1966), and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Fox School of Business and Management of Temple University (1969).� In 2013, Sewanee awarded him the Honorary Doctorate of Civil Laws.Dr. Hunt served on the Board of Trustees of Temple University from 1987 to 2010 and is now an honorary life trustee. He received the Abramson Award from the National Association for Business Economics for �outstanding contributions in the field of business economics.� He is a life member of the American Finance Association.� He was a member of the Economic Advisory Board of the American Bankers Association and Chairman of the Economic Advisory Board of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association.� He served on the Monetary and Fiscal Policy Affairs Committee of the National Chamber of Commerce.