J. Lavia Thomas

Relational Investors focuses on investments in publicly-traded US and Canadian companies. The firm seeks to identify, invest in, and create long-term growth in mature companies with strong cash flows from sound core businesses that have significantly underperformed the market and their peers.

Provides brokerage services

Harlingwood Capital Management offers two primary investment strategies: long/short US equity hedge and small-cap growth. Their long/short US equity hedge strategy is absolute return driven, investing across all US market-cap segments. They focus on strong growth companies on the long side and companies experiencing deteriorating fundamentals on the short side. The small-cap growth strategy is invested with the objective of long-term growth of capital. Small- and micro-cap equities are selected from a universe of high growth US companies. At time of annual benchmark reconstruction, purchase ceilings are set for this universe by matching to the largest (market capitalization) company in the Russell 2000 Growth index. They tend to focus on the technology services, commercials services and health technology sectors. Harlingwood maintains a medium turnover rate.

Functions as a College/University

Functions as an alternative investment manager