General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> January 23, 2012

Contrarian Approach to Value Investing – Charles Lieberman – Advisors Capital Management, LLC

Charles Lieberman is a Founding Member and serves as Chief Investment Officer for Advisors Capital Management, LLC, a money management and investment advisory firm, servicing financial advisers and private clients throughout the country. Dr. Lieberman has overall responsibility for managing its separate account portfolios. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in economics, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania before beginning his professional career as an Academic at the University of Maryland, and subsequently, at Northwestern University. After five years in academia, Dr. Lieberman joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as Head of its monetary analysis staff before coming to Wall Street. At Morgan Stanley and Shearson Lehman Brothers, he focused on the debt and equity markets, respectively. In 1986, he joined Manufacturers Hanover Securities Corp. as Chief Economist and Head of Research and retained that position through the subsequent mergers with Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan. In 1997, he left Chase to found, along with Co-Founder Henry Kaufman, the global macro hedge fund Strategic Investors Management LLC and to serve as its Managing Partner and Principal Strategist. Profile
TWST: Please begin with a brief introduction to Advisors Capital Management, including some key highlights from the firm's history, its total assets under management and a bit about your role