About KCM
Kornitzer Capital Management is a full service investment management firm managing assets for institutions, mutual funds and private clients. Institutional clients benefit from our separately managed accounts, tailored to investment policy guidelines and tax requirements. With our approach to lifetime asset management, KCM helps our private clients achieve their long-term financial goals throughout the various investment stages including accumulation, preservation, and retirement.
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KCM is consistently ranked as one of the top fee-based investment advisers in Kansas City, by overall assets under management, as ranked by the Kansas City Business Journal.
In 2022 we held the #11 spot.
The firm was created to manage customized portfolios for private clients and institutions. We continue to provide client-focused, personalized money management through our Kornitzer Private Client Services (KPCS) group, and pension, corporate, and foundation separate account management through our institutional services group.
With our approach to lifetime asset management, KCM helps clients achieve their long-term financial goals throughout the various investment stages including accumulation, preservation, and retirement.
Over the years, based on client request or need, we formed companies and alliances to better serve specific niches.
Buffalo Funds
KCM founded this fund family in 1994 and continues to serve as its manager. The family of no-load mutual funds consists of 10 publicly registered stock and bond funds and represents a full range of capitalization size and growth and income options.
Our working philosophy:
- Integrity and honesty in everything we do.
- Independent thinking and creativity.
- Hard work and attention to detail.
- Pride of ownership.
- Investing alongside our clients.
Lastly, we recognize that fees and taxes play an important role in determining long-term performance, so we strive to keep our fee structure competitive and tax consequences to a minimum.
We are dedicated to generating a majority of our research in-house.
We pride ourselves on being able to find, analyze, and critique information on the companies we invest in. We use a variety of fundamental evaluation methods while dissecting vast amounts of data, visiting companies as well as their competitors and suppliers, and writing formal research reports. Lastly, we build proprietary financial models and use multiple valuation methodologies to derive a security’s intrinsic value.
After the completion of extensive analysis the recommendation is evaluated in both informal and formal investment meetings. The security is subject to intense group scrutiny. Once all discussion is complete then the group takes action.
KCM’s commitment to research enables its investment professionals to think independently and invest with confidence for the long term, especially when short-term sentiment runs the other way. Our belief is that periods of great pessimism often generate the best investment opportunities.
KCM’s lead portfolio managers have, on average, more than 20 years of research and portfolio management experience. Over 90% of our portfolio managers and research analysts hold the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Leadership Team
Joe Neuberger, CPA
President & CEO
Laura Symon Browne, CFP, ChFC
Executive Vice President – KCM
President – Buffalo Funds
John Kornitzer
Founder – KCM, Buffalo Funds
Portfolio Manager
Fred Coats, JD
Chief Compliance Officer
Barry Koster, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Portfolio Managers
Dave Carlsen, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Chris Carter, CFA
Portfolio Manager of Private Clients
Doug Cartwright, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Jeff Deardorff, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Paul Dlugosch, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Kent Gasaway
Portfolio Manager of Private Clients
Matthew Ison, CFA
Portfolio Manager of Private Clients
Nicole Kornitzer, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Ken Laudan
Portfolio Manager
Bob Male, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Craig Richard, CFA
Portfolio Manager
John Shepley, CFA
Portfolio Manager of Private Clients
Jeff Sitzmann, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Pat Warren, CFA
Portfolio Manager of Private Clients
Josh West, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Research Analysts
Research Analyst
Michael Grossman, CFA
Investment Research Analyst
Tim Jenkins, CFA
Equity Research Analyst
Tori Johnson, CFA
Equity Research Analyst
Nathan Soulis, CFA
Equity Research Analyst
Pat Srinivas
Equity Research Analyst
Trading Team
Brett Coughlin
Equity & Fixed Income Trader
Janet Jones
Fixed Income Trader
Aaron Schafer
Equity Trader
Marketing & Distribution
Christopher Crawford
Head of Sales & Marketing
Scott Johnson
National Account Manager & Consultant Relations
~ John C. Kornitzer, Founder
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