Robert H. Hackney

Robert is senior managing director and head of International Wholesale Distribution. He joined Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers, LLC (the predecessor firm of First Eagle) in 1995 and became the portfolio manager for the firm’s Merger Arbitrage Department at the beginning of the following year. In 2004 he left active portfolio management to concentrate on corporate projects, primarily related to the firm’s recapitalization in 2007. Since 2008 he has worked extensively with the firm’s non-US based clients, both representing the firm’s investment strategies and expanding the opportunities for non-US based investors to invest with the firm. He is currently responsible for all the firm’s international third-party distribution, as well as for the firm’s relationship with investors in the First Eagle Amundi International and Income Builder Funds. He is frequently asked to explain the firm’s philosophy and portfolios to audiences throughout the world. Prior to joining First Eagle, Robert was a research analyst and portfolio manager for several investment firms, including Kellner, DiLeo & Company, Coniston Partners, and S.B. Lewis & Co. He began his career at Loeb Rhoades, Hornblower & Company in 1979 as an investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions. He earned a BA, an MBA and a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar. Robert has been active as a trustee or investment committee member for endowments and foundations and is currently a member of the investment committee of the Hunter College Foundation. He chaired the finance committee for the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for over two decades and has been a trustee and investment committee member for Barton College. He is also a member of the Council of The University Club of New York and past chairman of the Committee on Admissions of The University Club.