General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> May 4, 1998

Thomas Cooper – Gmo Emerging Country Debt Fund

THOMAS F. COOPER is a Managing Director at Grantham Mayo, Van Otterloo & Company. A Chartered Financial Analyst, he was previously affiliated with Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Western Asset Management, and the State Street Bank. Mr. Cooper holds a Bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is married and in his free time enjoys spending time with his two children, triathlons, and poker. Profile
TWST: To begin, is the Asian crisis qualifying as a worldwide financial

crisis?

Mr. Cooper: Probably not quite. It's pretty close though: if the Asian

contagion reaches Latin America and