Christopher Versace
Chief Investment Officer and Thematic Strategist, Tematica Research
Christopher (Chris) Versace is the Chief Investment Officer and thematic strategist at Tematica Research and serves as the portfolio manager for TheStreet’s Action Alerts Plus portfolio. The proprietary thematic investing framework that he’s developed over the last decade leverages changing economic, demographic, psychographic and technology landscapes to identify pronounced, multi-year structural changes. This framework sits at the heart of Tematica’s investment themes, indices and other strategies, and builds on his more than 25 years analyzing industries, companies, and their business models as well as financial statements. Versace is the co-author of “Cocktail Investing: Distilling Everyday Noise into Clear Investing Signals”, hosts the AAP Podcast, and is a frequent media guest. Versace was an Assistant Professor at the NJCU School of Business, where he taught undergraduate and graduate Finance classes, advised the Student Investment Management Group, and developed the NJCU New Jersey 50 Index.