Donald S. Wilson

Nicholas Co. employs a fundamental, bottom-up approach to security selection with a long-term investment horizon. Their process focuses on identifying securities offering secular growth characteristics, strong financial bases, reasonable valuations and downside risk. The firm’s long-term approach deemphasizes the short-term impact of day-to-day market volatility and maintains a focus on the long-term potential of the securities in their portfolios.

NTI-IM employs a variety of security analysis methods in providing investment advisory services. The firm applies quantitative analysis methodologies in creating overlay investment strategies. Each investment strategy of the firm is managed by a team comprised of portfolio managers and investment analysts. Their asset class capabilities include equity, fixed income, liquidity and asset allocation. Strategy implementation ranges from passive and factor-based quantitative, to fundamental active and multi-manager.

FMI’s equity investing strategies apply a value discipline, with a focused approach firmly rooted in fundamental research. The firm uses fundamental analysis to look for stocks of good businesses selling at value prices to achieve above-average performance with below-average risk.