Top Value Based Portfolio Manager Interviews from 2021: Now is the Best Time to Invest

January 20, 2022

A value investing portfolio manager rarely gives a detailed interview on how to maximize returns by finding undiscovered public market gems.  2022 may turn out to be the focus year for value investing as stocks rotate into more asset rich sectors.  These portfolio managers tell you how to maximize your gains at this point in the stock market cycle.

Ira Rothberg is a Portfolio Manager and Managing Member of Broad Run Investment Management

Ira Rothberg, Broad Run Investment Management

Not-Hot Sectors Offer Long-Term Growth and Compelling Valuations

Ira Rothberg is a Portfolio Manager and Managing Member of Broad Run Investment Management, LLC, which was founded in 2012 and serves as the subadviser to the Hennessy Focus Fund (HFCSX/HFCIX). Between 2009 and 2012, Mr. Rothberg worked for FBR Funds as the Co-Portfolio Manager of the FBR Focus Fund (the predecessor to the Hennessy Focus Fund).

Randy Warren is Chief Investment Officer of Warren Financial Service

Randy Warren, Warren Financial Service

Fintech, Regional Banks, and Travel: Rising Sectors

Randy Warren is Chief Investment Officer of Warren Financial Service, a registered investment advisory firm. He also manages WFS Funds, the institutional division of Warren Financial Service, which includes hedge fund and private equity investment products.

Scott M. Kimball, CFA, is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Taplin, Canida & Habacht for the BMO TCH Intermediate Income Fund

Scott M. Kimball, Taplin, Canida & Habacht

Buying Debt Securities That Were Sold for the Wrong Reasons

Scott M. Kimball is Co-Head, U.S. Fixed Income for BMO Global Asset Management. In this role, his primary responsibility is leading the application of the investment process across the team’s strategies.

Janet Rilling, CFA, is a senior portfolio manager and head of the Multi-Sector Fixed Income – Plus and High Yield team at Wells Fargo Asset Management

Janet Rilling, Wells Fargo Asset Management

Incremental Yield in a Low Interest Rate Environment

Janet Rilling, CFA, is a senior portfolio manager and head of the Multi-Sector Fixed Income – Plus and High Yield team at Wells Fargo Asset Management.

 

Sean Chaitman is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Shelter Rock Management

Sean Chaitman, Shelter Rock Management

Reopening Plays That Also Offer Good Long-Term Performance

Sean Chaitman has been the President and Chief Investment Officer of Shelter Rock Management since the firm was founded in 2006. He has close to three decades of investment experience leading portfolio managers and as a research analyst.

Raymond Saleeby is President of Saleeby & Associates, Inc. He has over 38 years of investment experience.

Raymond Saleeby, Saleeby & Associates

Fragrance and Flavor Businesses Remain Strong in Inflationary Times

“The…best business that I found in the last five years — it’s a phenomenal business — is the flavor and fragrance business. It’s termed different names in different areas. But it’s a great business. The same companies have been around, for the most part, the last 100 years, and the barriers to entry are enormous.”

Bill Caton, CFA, is Portfolio Manager and Head of Trading at First Wilshire Securities Management

Bill Caton, First Wilshire Securities Management

Small-Cap Value Investing

“Given our long history of researching small-cap value stocks, we possess a massive database of individual company research which allows us a more comprehensive view of a company’s life cycle. We have built proprietary research tools to quickly assess company fundamentals no matter what global exchange they are listed on.”

Eric J. Marshall, CFA, is President, Co-Chief Investment Officer, and Director of Research for Hodges Capital Management.

Eric J. Marshall, Hodges Capital Management

Hard Asset Companies Better Positioned to Weather Inflation

“Companies that have a lot of hard fixed assets will actually see better equity appreciation in an inflationary environment than companies that, for instance, may be in software or cloud computing, where you don’t have the same type of hard assets benefiting from inflation. They’re not as sensitive to property, plant, equipment, land…”

David A. Volpe, CFA, is Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Emerald Advisers

David A. Volpe, Emerald Advisers

Stephen Amsterdam is Senior Research Analyst and Associate Portfolio Manager at Emerald Advisers

Stephen Amsterdam, Emerald Advisers

Joseph Hovorka is Senior Research Analyst and Associate Portfolio Manager at Emerald Advisers

Joseph Hovorka, Emerald Advisers

Mega Caps Offset Smaller Growth Names

“We’re fortunate [portfolio managers] at Emerald. For 30 years, we’ve employed pretty much the same fundamental, bottom-up research approach to help us stay ahead of the market. We have specialized staff. You’ll see we have individuals who are Ph.D.s and physicians, as well as those with deep technology skills, skill sets and experience on the business side to understand and invest in those more technical and specialized areas. We also have venture capitalists and policy veterans, industry experts, and so you have this mixture of both highly skilled specialists, as well as generalists, which allow us to do a real fundamental deep dive into the companies that we invest in.”

 

John Buckingham is Principal and Portfolio Manager at Kovitz

John Buckingham, Kovitz

Value Manager Names His Faves

“Kovitz is a wealth management firm providing asset management, financial planning, retirement projections — pretty much the full gamut of anything that a high net worth client would need..And the principles, if you will, that we follow are espoused in The Prudent Speculator investment newsletter.”

Martin H. Bergin is the President and Co-Owner of DUNN Capital Management

Martin H. Bergin, DUNN Capital Management

Commodities Strategy Does Well in Inflationary Times

“…Once you start seeing the velocity of money pick up, inflation is going to take off. And you’re starting to see it now because you see wage rate gains in the employment sector. So this will start driving what they call wage inflation spirals. And, of course, wage increases always fall behind the inflation in the marketplace. So inflation is like a tax on everybody. It hits everybody equally.”

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