General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> May 1, 2000

Thomas Pierce – R.j. Steichen Inc

THOMAS J. PIERCE is Director of Institutional Sales at R. J. Steichen & Company. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Superior, with degrees in Marketing and Management. Mr. Pierce served in the U.S. Army both in the United States and Vietnam. He entered the securities industry in 1976 with what is now Dain, Rauscher, Wessels, where he started in the Foreign Institutional Sales department in 1980. He became the head of the Foreign Institutional Sales department in 1985. In 1989, Mr. Pierce developed the institutional department at John G. Kinnard & Company. He entered R. J. Steichen as the Director of Institutional Sales in August of 1997. Profile
TWST: Tell the readers about the investment approach at R.J. Steichen.

Mr. Pierce: R.J. Steichen is a company that's been around since about

1929. We look mainly at the small and micro-cap