General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> November 14, 2012

Global Small-Cap Investing Strategies

Pearce, Randy E.
Randy E. Pearce, CFA, is a Senior Research Analyst at Grandeur Peak Global Advisors, with a specialty focus on the financial sector. He has been with the firm since its founding in July 2011. Mr. Pearce was a Junior and later, Senior Research Analyst at Wasatch Advisors from 2005 to 2009. He was a Financial Sector Specialist and a General Analyst on the Wasatch Strategic Income Fund (WASIX) — a global equity product with an emphasis in financial companies. In 2010, Mr. Pearce interned at Thornburg Investment Management as a Global Equities Analyst while earning his MBA. Mr. Pearce has a B.A. in business Administration from the University of Utah and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Pearce speaks Portuguese and lived in Brazil for two years. Profile
TWST: Tell us about Grandeur Peak Global Advisors.

Mr. Pearce: Grandeur Peak was founded about a year and a half ago by Robert Gardiner, Blake Walker and Eric Huefner. We are a boutique