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MARK ROACH
Managing Director and Portfolio Manager |
Mark Roach joined Dreman Value Management in November 2006 as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of Small and Mid Cap products and brings over 14 years of industry experience to the Firm. He is responsible for management of all Small, Mid and Smid Cap products. Prior to joining Dreman, Mr. Roach was a Portfolio Manager at Vaughan Nelson Investment Management, managing a small cap product from 2002 through 2006. During this time the small cap product significantly outperformed the Russell 2000 value index. Mr. Roach is in the top third peer rankings over the 1, 2, and 3 year periods in the PSN and Russell databases (SCV). In addition, small cap assets grew from $30 million (2002) to over $1.5 billion (2006). In April of 2006, Mr. Roach was also given the responsibility for the management of the newly seeded Mid Cap product with approximately $770 million in assets which was benchmarked against the Russell Mid Cap Value Index and the Russell 2500 Value Index. Mr. Roach has significant experience in working with institutions, pensions and endowments and is well known in the consulting and high net worth community. Mr. Roach served as a security analyst from 1994 to 2001 for various institutions including Fifth Third Bank, Lynch, Jones & Ryan and USAA.
Mr. Roach developed and implemented the investment philosophy that is the foundation of all the equity products at Vaughan Nelson which is similar to Dreman's Contrarian Value Philosophy. This philosophy is founded in Low P/E and is grounded in return on invested capital and minimum return objectives for every stock.
Mr. Roach received his MBA from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and a Bachelors degree from the Baldwin Wallace College. He also serves as a Board Member on the Rice University Wright Fund since 2003.
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