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Profile
Mr. Glen Thomson is a Manager at Wallara Asset Management Pty Ltd. He joined Wallara in 2005 and is responsible for Wallara's operations including portfolio administration, client reporting, compliance, IT, and financial control.
He is also the Company Secretary.
Prior to joining Wallara, Mr. Thomson was Chief Operating Officer for 4 years at PeregrineQuant, a start-up quantitative fund manager in South Africa with $1.5bn under management.
Before this he worked as a Global Risk Analyst at UBS in London and qualified as a Chartered Accountant through Ernst & Young in South Africa.
Mr. Thomson is both an Australian and South African Chartered Accountant and has a B.Com and Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting (both Cum Laude) from the University of Cape Town.
Former positions of Glen Thomson
| Companies | Position | End |
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Wallara Asset Management Pty Ltd.
 Wallara Asset Management Pty Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance WAM has a bottom-up market approach and has an active management style. The firm tries to identify stocks available at a reasonable price, which promise above-average growth and strong future shareholder value.^Their approach is based on fundamental analysis of individual companies, analysis which relies on company publications and statutory reports, trade and business journals, stockbroker research, and direct contact with company management.^WAM also uses shareholder value analysis (SVA) techniques to calculate returns generated by the business, its cost of capital, and its valuation each year. The firm uses CFROI to identify the relationship between the cash generated by a business relative to the cash invested in it. ^Another SVA technique employed by the firm uses historical actual financial results for past years and the firm's forecasts for future years to calculate a company's value using discounted cashflow methodology WAM's portfolios are fairly concentrated so as to maximize the impact of research and analysis efforts without losing the risk reduction of diversification. The firm further manages risk by limiting exposure to individual stocks or sectors. | Director of Research - Fxd Inc | 07/09/2010 |
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Wallara Asset Management Pty Ltd.
Wallara Asset Management Pty Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance WAM has a bottom-up market approach and has an active management style. The firm tries to identify stocks available at a reasonable price, which promise above-average growth and strong future shareholder value.^Their approach is based on fundamental analysis of individual companies, analysis which relies on company publications and statutory reports, trade and business journals, stockbroker research, and direct contact with company management.^WAM also uses shareholder value analysis (SVA) techniques to calculate returns generated by the business, its cost of capital, and its valuation each year. The firm uses CFROI to identify the relationship between the cash generated by a business relative to the cash invested in it. ^Another SVA technique employed by the firm uses historical actual financial results for past years and the firm's forecasts for future years to calculate a company's value using discounted cashflow methodology WAM's portfolios are fairly concentrated so as to maximize the impact of research and analysis efforts without losing the risk reduction of diversification. The firm further manages risk by limiting exposure to individual stocks or sectors. | Finance |
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