Mark Madsen & Brad Barth Promoted to Industry Portfolio Managers
Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) September 01, 2016 -- Grandeur Peak Global Advisors® announced today that Mark Madsen and Brad Barth have been promoted to the role of Industry Portfolio Manager on the Grandeur Peak Global Reach Fund. Mr. Madsen will lead the Energy & Materials team and Mr. Barth will lead the Financials team. The Global Reach Fund is managed by six industry portfolio managers (and their respective industry teams) who collectively cover the globe to find what they believe to be lesser known, best-in-class growth companies. The micro-to-midcap Global Reach Fund is overseen by guardian portfolio managers Robert Gardiner (CEO, Co-DOR), Blake Walker (CIO), and Randy Pearce (Co-DOR).
Mr. Madsen (CFA, MAcc) began his investment career at Wasatch Advisors where he specialized in Energy & Materials, Industrials and Financials. Before joining Grandeur Peak on the Energy & Materials team at the beginning of 2016, Mr. Madsen had spent the last seven years as a portfolio manager at Red Desert Capital and then managing an equity portfolio for a family office.
Mr. Barth (MSc) joined Grandeur Peak’s Financials team in 2015 from Goldman Sachs, where he had been an EMEA financial institutions analyst in the Credit Research Group. Mr. Barth earned a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and teaches a game theory course for MBA students as an adjunct professor at the University of Utah.
Randy Pearce, co-Director of Research, said: “We are very pleased to elevate Mark and Brad into these roles and expect a seamless transition given the collaborative team structure in which we work.”
About Grandeur Peak Global Advisors
Grandeur Peak Global Advisors is comprised of a highly seasoned and collaborative research team taking a bottom-up approach to investing using disciplined global screening, rigorous company due diligence, and close attention to valuation to find what we believe to be the best investment opportunities around the world. Our bias is towards micro to mid-cap companies because we believe we can find faster growth among these firms, and often at better valuations due to the lack of analyst coverage. Grandeur Peak Global Advisors, LLC is an employee-owned investment adviser headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
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Eric Huefner, President, Grandeur Peak Global Advisors, http://www.GrandeurPeakGlobal.com, +1 (801) 384-0003, [email protected]
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