General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> June 15, 2009
Phil Taller is a Portfolio Manager at Bluewater Investment Management Inc. He
joined the company in December 1998. He began his investment career at Bunting
Warburg Inc. in 1991 as a Research Associate. His work involved fundamental
analysis of companies in several industries, with a main focus on the oil and
gas, transportation and industrial sectors. He left Bunting Warburg to join
Jones Heward Investment Management Inc. in 1994. At Jones Heward, he was an
Equity Analyst providing recommendations on Canadian equities to a group of
portfolio managers. In 1995, he joined Trimark as a Portfolio Manager on the
Canadian equities team. He focused on bottom-up company analysis. Appointed a
Vice President in 1998, he co-managed $10 billion in North American equities.
His undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Mathematics with a specialization in
Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He worked as a software
developer before returning to school to pursue an MBA. He earned his MBA degree
from York University in 1991. He earned his Chartered Financial Analyst
designation in 1994. Profile
Mr. Taller: Bluewater was founded in 1994 by a manager who had left Trimark
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