Fri Jul 14 17:51:00 -0400 2006

Institutional Investor Magazine (New York, NY)

Dana Telsey learned the ins and outs of retailing as a teenager working the cash register of her parents’ book and magazine store on New York’s Madison Avenue. Now she runs her own shop. In May the former Bear, Stearns & Co. retail analyst set up independent research firm Telsey Advisory Group in a Fifth Avenue high-rise, one block from Grand Central Station.

Telsey, a 43-year-old Fordham MBA, began her career analyzing stocks for value investor Ron Baron and spent three years at C.J. Lawrence & Co. before joining Bear 12 years ago. There she became a star researcher of retailers ranging from French luxury goods purveyor LVMH, maker of Louis Vuitton handbags and Moët & Chandon champagne, to discount giant Wal-Mart Stores. For the past seven years, voters in this magazine’s All-America Research Team survey have chosen Telsey as the nation’s top specialty-store analyst…

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