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Philosophy
Andrew
Cupps began developing the Cupps Capital Management investment philosophy
in the 1980’s that focused on economic and cultural growth trends.
In the early 1990’s, working with Richard Driehaus as an analyst at
Driehaus Capital Management, Mr. Cupps began to complement his work on
secular growth trends with stock-specific and portfolio level investment
disciplines. Over the last 14 years, including seven years of
managing portfolios and over $1 billion in assets at Strong Capital
Management, Mr. Cupps translated his belief in the combination of secular
growth trends with investment discipline into the proprietary investment
framework employed by the Cupps Capital Management investment team today.
The framework is called Comprehensive Equity Portfolio Platform,
CEPP©, and it incorporates fundamental analysis, bottom-up earnings
models, investment themes and our “five-perspective” evaluation
approach to determining the attractiveness of each stock.
Team
History
Andrew
Cupps was employed as a portfolio manager by Strong Capital Management
from 1994 - 2000. At Strong, Mr. Cupps managed partnership assets
for high net worth individuals and, in 1998, launched the Strong
Enterprise Fund, a growth style mutual fund that invested in companies of
all sizes and focused on small and mid-size companies positioned
attractively within secular growth trends. In 1999, Mr. Cupps hired
Kevin Leitner and Laura Flentye to establish his Chicago team as part of
Strong Capital Management. The team managed $1.5 billion in mutual
fund and partnership assets at Strong. At the end of 2000, Mr.
Leitner, Ms. Flentye and Mr. Cupps left Strong to found Cupps
Capital Management.
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