Columbia University Graduate School of Bus. in Conjunction with Gabelli Funds Names Howard S. Marks 2016 Recipient of Graham ...
May 23 2016 - 10:00AM
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Gabelli Funds announced the recipient of the Graham & Dodd,
Murray, Greenwald Prize for Value Investing at its thirtieth-first
client conference on Friday, May 20 in New York. He is Howard S.
Marks, CFA, Chairman and Co-Founder of Oaktree Capital.
Bruce C.N. Greenwald, who is the academic Director of the
Heilbrunn Graham & Dodd Research Center at The Columbia
University Graduate School of Business, and who leads the Gabelli
Prize selection committee said, “Howard’s contributions to the
field of Value Investing from the perspective of an owner of a
company’s debt is immeasurable.”
Howard S. Marks, CFA is a Principal, Chairman and co-founder of
Oaktree Capital Group, LLC since 1995. Mr. Marks is a pioneer in
the management of high yield bonds and convertible securities.
Prior to Oaktree, he was the Chief Investment Officer at The TCW
Group, Inc. and the President of TCW Asset Management Company from
1985 to 1995. He began his career as an Equity Research Analyst at
CitiCorp in 1969, becoming its Director of Research. Over the
36-plus year span of his investment management career, he developed
the fundamental investment philosophy which governs all of
Oaktree’s activities.
Mr. Marks chaired the Investment Board of University of
Pennsylvania from 2000 to 2010 where he serves as a Trustee. He is
the author of “The Most Important Thing” published in May 2011 by
Columbia University Press. He holds an M.B.A. in Accounting and
Marketing from the Graduate School of Business of the University of
Chicago, where he received the George Hay Brown Prize and a
B.S.Ec., cum laude, from The Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania with a major in Finance.
Gabelli created the annual prize to honor an individual,
student, or practitioner who has made an outstanding contribution
to enlarge the field of value investing. Known as the “Gabelli
Prize”, the company funded the prize with $1 million and presents
the award at its annual client meetings.
GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE:GBL), through its subsidiaries,
manages assets of private advisory accounts (GAMCO), mutual funds
and closed-end funds (Gabelli Funds, LLC) and is known for its
Private Market Value with a Catalyst™ style of investment. As of
March 31, 2016, GAMCO Investors, Inc. had $38.7 billion in assets
under management.
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