General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> August 17, 1998

Joseph E. Stocke – Meridian Investment

JOSEPH E. STOCKE, CRA, Senior Investment Manager, Equity, joined Meridian as a founding member in 1984. He is the firm's equity strategist and brings 13 years of investment experience to his position. Mr. Stocke earned a B.S. in Economics, with honors, from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and attended graduate courses at New York University. He previously has worked at American Bank and Trust Company of PA as an investment officer and at Dean Witter Reynolds as a research analyst. His professional affiliations include the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, Financial Analysts Federation and Central Pennsylvania Investment Managers Association. In his free time, Mr. Stocke is a devotee of old movies. Profile
TWST: Will you review the core equity approach that you utilize at

Meridian Investment Management?

Mr. Stocke: It's a combination of our quantitative model, which is a

multi-factor model