General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> November 9, 1998

Warren M. Barnett – Barnett & Company

WARREN M. BARNETT, President of Barnett & Company, is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mr. Barnett graduated from McCallie school. He attained his BS degree in Accounting from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and his MBA in Finance from the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Mr. Barnett was previously associated with the investment banking firm of Kidder, Peabody & Company and the investment counseling firm of Davidge & Company in Washington before returning to Chattanooga to accept a position with a local bank in the trust investment department. Perceiving a need for a firm of the type with which he was associated in Washington, Mr. Barnett left to establish Barnett & Company in 1983. Mr. Barnett received the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, Charlotte, VA in 1986. Profile
TWST: Will you review your goals as money managers and tell us something

about your approach to investing?

Mr. Barnett: Barnett & Company is a fundamental, bottom-up and

contrarian