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Ms. Ketterer is the chief executive officer at Causeway, fundamental portfolio manager, and is responsible for investment research across all sectors. Ms. Ketterer co-founded the firm in June 2001 and is a member of the operating committee.
From 1996 to 2001, Ms. Ketterer worked for the Hotchkis & Wiley division of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (HW-MLIM). At HW-MLIM, she was a managing director and co-head of the firm’s HW-MLIM International and Global Value team. From 1990 to 1996, Ms. Ketterer was a portfolio manager at Hotchkis & Wiley, where she founded the International Equity product.
Ms. Ketterer earned a BA in economics and political science from Stanford University and an MBA from the Tuck School, Dartmouth College. Ms. Ketterer serves on the Stanford University Board of Trustees, is a member of UT Southwestern President’s Advisory Board, is on the advisory board of Portal Schools, and is a supporter of Girls Who Invest. She previously served as a board member and chair of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall and chair of the investment committee of the Music Center Foundation.
N. David Samra is a managing director of Artisan Partners and founding partner of the Artisan Partners International Value Team. He is lead portfolio manager of the Artisan International Value Fund, which he has managed since the portfolio’s inception in September 2002.
Mr. Samra also was co-portfolio manager for the Global Value Fund from its inception in December 2007 through September 2018. Under Mr. Samra’s leadership, the team was nominated six times (in 2008, consecutively from 2011-2014 and again in 2016) for
Morningstar, Inc.’s International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year award in the US and won the award in 2008 and 2013. The team was also named EAFE Equity Investment Manager of the Year in 2015 and 2016 by Institutional Investor.
Investor’s Business Daily recognized the Artisan International Value Fund in 2021 and 2022 as one of the best international stock mutual funds for outperforming the MSCI EAFE index over the last one-, three-, five- and ten-year periods. In 2023, the team received three Lipper Fund Awards, recognizing it for consistently strong risk-adjusted performance over the three-, five- and ten-year time periods relative to Lipper’s International Large-Cap Value Funds category. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in May 2002, Mr. Samra was a portfolio manager and a senior analyst in international equities at Harris Associates LP from August 1997 through May 2002. Earlier in his career, he was a portfolio manager with Montgomery Asset Management, Global Equities Division. Mr. Samra holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Bentley College and a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia Business School.
Gary Channon co-founded Phoenix Asset Management Partners in 1998 and has managed the Phoenix UK Fund since its launch in May the same year.
Since inception, the Fund has returned gross performance of 727% (versus the benchmark’s total return of 142%), an annualised return of 12% (versus the benchmark annualising at 4.9%).
The investment philosophy at Phoenix is strongly inspired by Warren Buffett and Phil Fisher: long-term, value-based and focused. In terms of investment research, Phoenix considers its own primary fieldwork to be a major contributor to the effectiveness of the research effort. Typically, this includes assessing product quality via mystery shopping and undertaking competitor analysis in order to understand the purchasing decision of the marginal customer. Prior to Phoenix, Gary was co-Head of Equity and Equity Derivatives Trading at Nomura International, and before that he was at Goldman Sachs within Global Equity Derivative Products Training.
Jacob Mitchell is Antipodes’ chief investment officer, which he founded in 2015 and has grown to over $6 billion AUM with offices in London and Sydney. Jacob is also Lead Portfolio Manager of Antipodes’ Global strategies and has over 25 years’ experience as a global investor.
Prior to Antipodes, Jacob was the Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Platinum Asset Management. During his 14 years with the company, he was also a PM of the flagship International Fund, PM of the Unhedged Fund and PM of the Japan Fund.
Antipodes is an Australian based pragmatic value manager offering exposure to global equities via long and long-short strategies. The experienced team identifies resilient companies trading at attractive valuations.
Ms. Gan joined Mondrian in 2005, initially on the International Equity team before moving to the Global Equity team in 2012. She leads the Global and International Equity teams. Previously, she worked as a consultant at Accenture, specializing in the financial services sector.
She holds a Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia and holds a Master of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is a CPA (Australia) and CFA Charterholder, as well as a member of the CPA Australia, the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of the UK.
A. Rama Krishna, CFA, is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of ARGA Investment Management. He was previously President, International of Pzena Investment Management and Managing Principal, Member of Executive Committee, and Portfolio Manager of its operating company in New York.
He led the development of the firm’s International Value and Global Value strategies and co-managed the Emerging Markets Value strategy, in addition to managing the U.S. Large Cap Value strategy in his early years at Pzena. Prior to joining Pzena in 2003, Mr. Krishna was at Citigroup Asset Management, where he was Chief Investment Officer and Head — Institutional and International, and represented the asset management business on the Citigroup Management Committee. He also directly managed the Global Emerging Markets Equity strategy. Prior to Citigroup, Mr. Krishna was Director of International Equity Research, Portfolio Manager, International Equities and Chief Investment Officer, Emerging Markets Equities at AllianceBernstein in New York, London and Tokyo. He has also worked at Credit Suisse First Boston, first as an Equity Research Analyst and ultimately as Chief Investment Strategist and Director — Equity Research, in New York, Tokyo and Singapore. Mr. Krishna earned a joint M.B.A./M.A. in Asian Studies with a Japan Specialization from the University of Michigan in 1987 and a B.A. (Honors) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, The University of Delhi in 1984. Mr. Krishna received the Prize Fellowship in Japanese Business and the University Fellowship at the University of Michigan as well as the Middlebury College Scholarship. He was on the MSCI Editorial Advisory Board and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Richard S. Pzena is Founder, Managing Principal, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Pzena is the architect of the firm’s investment strategy and conceived and developed our proprietary screening model. He serves as co-portfolio manager for the U.S. Large Cap and Mid Cap strategies, Focused Value, and U.S. Best Ideas.
Mr. Pzena began the firm in 1995. Prior to forming Pzena Investment Management, Mr. Pzena was the Director of U.S. Equity Investments and Chief Research Officer for Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. He joined Bernstein as an oil industry analyst and was named to the Institutional Investor All America Research Team for three years running. Mr. Pzena also served as Chief Investment Officer, Small Cap Equities. Prior to joining Bernstein, Mr. Pzena worked for the Amoco Corporation in various financial and planning roles. He earned a B.S. summa cum laude and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Sam Ziff joined OP in April 2013. He was previously employed by J.P. Morgan Cazenove working in the UK Industrials Corporate Finance team for a total of 4 years. He graduated from Oxford University. He is CIO, manages the global equity portfolios, and contributes to the overall investment selection.
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