• Financial & Investment Management Group
  • Tuesday, January 06, 2009

    Portfolio Management

  • Paul SutherlandPaul Sutherland

    Paul Sutherland has worked in the investment and financial advisory business since 1975. As a senior portfolio manager, he has been managing global total return investment portfolios (under the "investing without borders" style) for more than 23 years. In 1984, Paul formed the Financial & Investment Management Group, Ltd. (FIM Group) a Traverse City, Michigan-based registered investment adviser that manages investment portfolios on a discretionary basis for individuals, trusts, foundations and retirement plans. He currently serves as the company's president.

    Beyond his extensive investment experience, Paul is the author of numerous books on financial planning and money management, including Zenvesting: The Art of Abundance & Managing Money, 12 Steps to a Care-Free Retirement and the AMA Physicians' Guide to Financial Planning. Paul began his writing career in 1979 with an article on international investing that was published by Physician's Management Magazine. Over the past 27 years he has had academic and consumer articles published in magazines, newsletters and other publications on subjects such as benchmarking global portfolios, asset allocation, retirement investing, income investing, forecasting and global investing. His work has been published in Business Ethics, Financial Planner, Dental Management and NAPFA News. He is a regular columnist for Spirituality & Health magazine and has been interviewed by Bloomberg News, Barrons, The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Transcript, Investors Business Daily (IBD), Investment News, Money Magazine and others.

    Paul received his M.B.A. from Lake Superior State University. In addition, he is a certified financial planner and has completed the College of Financial Planning's Advanced Studies Course: Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management.

    Individuals and corporations from across the United States have sought his advice on estate and tax planning, retirement and investment management. He has spoken to professional groups nationally and internationally — including Singapore, Beijing, Sydney and Toronto — on topics such as international investing, investment economics and portfolio management.

    Paul is co-founder of the Children of the World Foundation, past chairman of the Traverse City Rotary Club's World Community Service Committee, past chairman of Safe Passage, and founder and chairman of the board of the Utopia Foundation.

     

     

  • Suzanne StepanSuzanne Stepan

    Suzanne Stepan's primary role is the management of client portfolios. She is responsible for aligning individual holdings within each client portfolio to meet target risk tolerances. She models portfolios to ensure a diverse spread of quality holdings. This process entails daily security and market analysis as well as asset allocation review. Suzanne brings 15 years of experience as an investment professional. She possesses a broad knowledge in a variety of financial securities, trading strategies and financial markets. Her product experience has included a familiarity with fixed-income and convertible securities, equities and warrants.

    Prior to joining FIM Group, Suzanne was employed by Noddings Investments as a vice president and senior portfolio manager. In this role, Suzanne used proprietary mathematical models to identify undervalued convertible securities while managing a convertible arbitrage strategy. The strategy employed convertible bonds while simultaneously executing a short position in the underlying stock. The strategy required strict daily monitoring of market movements for short stock hedge adjustments or possible convertible security sales.

    Suzanne holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Northern Illinois University and an M.B.A. from Lawrence Technological University. In September 1999, she received her Charter Financial Analyst certification.

     

     

  • Zach LiggettZach Liggett

    Zach Liggett joined FIM Group in November 2003, as a portfolio manager in the Michigan office. His responsibilities include the construction and monitoring of client portfolios and individual security analysis.

    Zach earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and International Studies from Eckerd College. He received an International MBA from the University of South Carolina, where he majored in Finance and Japanese.

    Before joining FIM Group, Zach spent over seven years living and working in Japan. He spent the majority of that time as an equity analyst covering Japanese game software and toy makers for WestLB Securities Pacific. Zach earned his CFA charter in June 2003, and is committed to act with integrity, competence, dignity, and in an ethical manner in helping our clients meet their financial goals.

     

     

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