General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> February 23, 2009
Amit Wadhwaney is a senior member of the investment team at Third Avenue
Management, LLC. He manages the Third Avenue International Value Fund and is a
portfolio manager for Third Avenue Management's private and institutional
advisory business. Additionally, he is portfolio manager of Third Avenue Global
Value Fund, LP, a private partnership investing in undervalued companies
worldwide. He is a director of Catalyst Paper Corporation, a Canadian paper
company. Previously, he was portfolio manager of the Carl Marks Global Value
Fund, LP, the predecessor to Third Avenue Global Value Fund, LP Prior to that he
was a principal of Glenrock Asset Management Associates, LP; both firms are
investment partnerships investing worldwide. Earlier in his career, he was a
securities analyst and subsequently Director of Research for M.J. Whitman, Inc.
Prior to that he was a paper and forest products analyst at Bunting Warburg, a
Canadian research-focused brokerage firm that served institutional clients. He
began his career in the Corporate Planning Group of Domtar, Inc., a Canadian
forest products producer. He spent 15 years there as a financial and business
analyst focusing on the newsprint, pulp and fine paper industries. He received a
BS degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of
Minnesota, as well as a BA (Honors) with distinction and MA degree in Economics
from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He received an MBA degree in
Finance from the University of Chicago. Profile
your philosophy there?
Mr. Wadhwaney: Third Avenue Management is an investment advisory firm that is
