OMAM(US) Notes to Editors
OMAM(US) Affiliates – Company Information
Analytic Investors
Analytic Investors is an investment management company widely recognised for its commitment to innovative investment research, a disciplined quantitative management approach and its ability to implement sophisticated trading and portfolio management strategies. Analytic’s investment philosophy is founded on the premise that the systematic application of quantitative techniques has the potential to deliver superior risk-adjusted performance, regardless of market cycle. With vast amounts of information available on demand, the company believes that the proper weighting of the right variables in the selection process is pivotal to their success. Based in Los Angeles, California, Analytic manages some $1.7 billion on behalf of institutional investors and individuals through its highly rated mutual funds.
Chairman: Roger G. Clarke, Ph.D.
President/Portfolio Mgr: Harindra de Silva, Ph.D., CFA
CIO/Portfolio Mgr.: Gregory M. McMurran
COO: Marie Nastasi Arlt
Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc.
Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney and Strauss, founded in 1979, is one of the largest value-orientated investment managers of institutional assets in the US and has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to this investment style. With some $26 billion under management, the company’s 21 investment professionals, with an average experience in excess of 23 years, manage domestic equity and fixed income portfolios for a variety of institutional clients. BHM&S is located in Dallas, Texas.
Principal, Large Cap Value Equity Portfolio Manager: James P. Barrow
Principal, Large Cap Value Equity Portfolio Manager: Ray Nixon, Jr.
Principal, Large Cap Value Equity Portfolio Manager: Richard A. Englander, CFA
Principal, Large Cap Value Equity Portfolio Manager: Robert J. Chambers, CFA
Principal, Large Cap Value Equity Portfolio Manager: Timothy J. Culler, CFA
Principal, Large Cap Value Equity Portfolio Manager: Jane Gilday, CFA
Principal, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager: John S. Williams, CFA
Principal, Director of Marketing: Robert D. Barkley
Principal, Senior Equity Analyst: H. Monroe Helm, III
Clay Finlay Inc.
Clay Finlay Inc. is a New York based, global equity management firm with offices in London, Geneva, Melbourne and Tokyo managing approximately $5 billion. Clay Finlay’s highly experienced investment professionals work as a team to manage concentrated, yet risk-controlled, global and regional equity portfolios on behalf of clients located worldwide. Clay Finlay’s investment approach is growth oriented and is driven primarily by a disciplined, price-sensitive stock selection process.
Francis Finlay, CFA – Chairman and CEO
John Clay – Chairman Emeritus
Arthur Barton – Director
Frances Dakers – Director
Greg Jones, CFA – Director
Susan Kenneally – Director
Peter Lyon – Director
Virginie Maisonneuve, CFA - Director
Robert Schletter, CFA – Director
Dwight Asset Management Company
Dwight Asset Management Company has focused on the management of stable value portfolios for defined contribution plans. The primary investment objective is capital preservation. Secondary objectives include competitive yield, investment diversification and real return over a market cycle. The objectives are met through rigorous risk management, credit research and duration management. Dwight offers a variety of portfolio allocation strategies tailored around the core philosophy of capital preservation. Their disciplined investment and credit research has historically allowed Dwight to achieve superior returns with low volatility and high credit quality. Dwight has also developed an excellent fixed income capability, recently augmented by the addition of the Dewey Square fixed income business and three of the senior investment professionals previously with Dewey Square. Dwight manages some $14 billion on behalf of its institutional clients and is located in Burlington, Vermont.
President: John K. Dwight
Managing Director, Portfolio Manager: Laura P. Dagan, CFA
Managing Director, Portfolio Manager: David W. Richardson, CFA
NWQ Investment Management Company
NWQ Investment Management Company, founded in 1982, utilizes a value oriented style in managing a broad array of portfolio strategies including large, mid and small cap equity, balanced and fixed income. Clients include public entities, foundations, endowments, corporate and multi-employer plans as well as high net-worth individuals. The company is based in Los Angeles, California and manages over $5 billion in assets.
NWQ’s thirteen member team of investment professionals average 21 years of experience and 9 years tenure. Drawing on a single underlying value-oriented philosophy, NWQ’s opportunistic valuation framework is designed to select securities with favorable risk-reward characteristics. The firm’s hallmark continues to be the ability to uncover companies and industries where positive change is about to occur, through a research-intensive bottom-up stock selection process.
Chairman, CIO: David A. Polak, CFA
President & CEO: Michael Mendez
Managing Director: E.C. (Ted) Friedel, CFA
Managing Director: Jon D. Bosse, CFA
Provident Investment Counsel
Provident Investment Counsel manages accounts for institutional clients according to a growth equity investment style, emphasizing fundamental research and a team approach to portfolio management. The research staff at Provident seek out companies with strong financial characteristics, which are thought to be in a period of high, sustainable earnings growth. Over the long run, Provident’s investment success has been a function of their commitment to their investment style. Based in Pasadena, California, the company has $17 billion in Institutional, Mutual Fund, and brokerage sponsored program assets across the spectrum of growth strategies as well as Balanced and Fixed Income strategies.
Chairman/PM Robert Kommerstad
Executive Managing Director/CEO/PM Larry D. Tashjian CFA, CIC
Executive Managing Director/PM George E. Handtmann III CFA, CIC
OMAM(US) Biographies
Eric Anstee, Chief Executive, Old Mutual Financial Services
Eric Anstee was appointed to the newly created position of Chief Executive, Old Mutual Financial Services on 30 June 2000, with responsibility for the Group’s rapidly growing asset management and related businesses. He was Group Finance Director from November 1998 as well as a member of the Group Executive Committee of Old Mutual. Previously he held the position of Finance Director of The Energy Group PLC, acquired by Texas Utilities in 1998. Prior to that he was Group Finance Director of Eastern Group plc between 1993 and 1995 on its acquisition by Hanson plc. Before joining Eastern, he was a senior partner with Ernst & Young and a member of the Management Board of the Management Consultancy arm. He is a member of the Accounting Standards Board’s Urgent Issues Task Force and a member of the Senate of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
Dr Kevin Carter, Old Mutual Asset Managers (US)
Dr Carter is Chief Executive of the newly formed Old Mutual Asset Managers (US). Prior to this he was Chief Executive of Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) Ltd. Dr Carter began his career as a research chemist at ICI before moving to Old Mutual in South Africa as an investment analyst. He left in 1982 to join Allan Gray Investment Counsel, a major South African Investment Management Company, as a partner. In 1985 Kevin returned to Old Mutual, taking up a position as a Senior Portfolio Manager and was subsequently appointed Assistant General Manager, Investments. He returned to the UK in 1987 as Investment Director for the Old Mutual Group's UK and offshore operation, known at that time as Providence Capitol. Dr Carter has an honours degree in Chemistry, an MBA, a PhD in financial analysis and is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Brian Malone, Finance Director, Old Mutual Asset Managers US
Brian began his career with Ernst & Young, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1985, following which he joined Old Mutual’s Guernsey operation as an accountant with the life assurance company, and then Financial Controller of the Group’s offshore operations. He then joined Barings Merchant Bank, working in their unit trust administration division, before returning to Old Mutual as Financial Controller for Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK). Brian subsequently became Finance Director of both the asset management and unit trust businesses in the UK, in addition to being Company Secretary, where his responsibilities covered investment administration, IT, legal and compliance, HR and accounting issues. Brian is now Finance Director for Old Mutual Asset Managers US.
Brian Baskir, Old Mutual Asset Managers US
Brian Max Baskir is a qualified actuary of The Institute of Actuaries in London. Under-graduate studies were at the University of Cape Town, earning a Bachelor of Business Science degree. He is also a certified member of the Financial Planning Institute of South Africa. Brian’s entire employment career, commencing in 1983, has been in various capacities and functions within the greater Old Mutual Group. His broad experience covers asset management, employee benefit and actuarial consulting. Since December 1997, he served as President of Boston-based Old Mutual Investment Advisers, Inc. Immediately prior to relocating to the USA, he was Senior Executive of Old Mutual Asset Managers in South Africa, with management responsibility nationally for institutional business development, relationship management and client servicing.
George D. McClelland, Old Mutual Asset Managers (US)
George McClelland joined United Asset Management Corporation in March 1994 as Senior Vice President. As a senior member of the UAM's operations group, he assisted the company’s diverse investment management affiliates by creating growth incentives, encouraging co-investments in new projects, and helping the firms plan for future growth and management development. His recent activities have included work with a number of UAM’s foreign affiliates as well as the startup of eSecLending, LLC, a web-based auction system for securities lending. From 1987 to 1994, McClelland held a number of management positions at Fidelity Investments ranging from Corporate Vice President and Treasurer to division President and Managing Director. From 1972 to 1987, he worked at Data General, where he advanced to the position of Vice President and Treasurer. He received a B.A. degree in economics, cum laude, from Trinity College and an M.B.A. degree with distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was also a George F. Baker Fellow. He is Chairman of Big Brothers of Boston, which offers a mentoring program for fatherless boys.
Richard S. Robie III, Old Mutual Asset Managers (US)
Mr. Robie has been a Senior Vice President of United Asset Management Corporation and has served as the head of its operations group. He joined UAM in March 1992 as a Vice President in the Company’s finance and administration group. His responsibilities included coordinating and supervising the UAM Funds mutual fund family, UAM Fund Distributors, and UAM’s investor and media relations activities. In 1994, he joined UAM’s newly established operations group, where he worked with the Company’s affiliates on a wide range of areas including new product development, marketing, management development, and incentives. In 1999, he was appointed head of the operations group. Prior to joining UAM, he was an attorney for five years with the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray specializing in the practice of real estate and corporate law. Mr. Robie received an A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1982, an M.A. degree in history from Duke University in 1987, and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law in 1987. In addition, he is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of both the Boston Security Analysts Society and the Massachusetts Bar Association.