"Welcome to the Collins BIS homepage! In 2001, after a successful
thirty year career in the institutional investment industry, I was
ready to optimize the management of my own assets. The only thing I needed was a stable
of deep value investment managers. I started Collins BIS to help
find them."
— Budge Collins, founder of Collins BIS and advisory board
member of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing,
Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
I was after managers who follow the value discipline of Ben Graham
and Warren Buffett. I wanted emerging deep value, big margin of
safety managers. They had to be the right size, less than $100
million, small enough to be flexible but large enough to have proven
the commitment and discipline I require for my own extremely demanding
investment standards.
When we find a manager who meets these requirements,
I call on him in his office. I don’t make just one visit.
I make ten. (It takes about two years.) I check his consistency,
discipline and commitment to value investing. I check each department
and the backgrounds of all principals and department heads.
At
the end of the process I know that manager's operation almost as
well as he does. Then, if I have confidence in his ability, his
integrity and his discipline, I will probably invest some of my
assets with him. And I continue to carefully monitor subsequent
behavior and performance.
Since 2001, I have found approximately twelve managers that I feel comfortable investing with today. They manage the majority of my liquid assets. Many have asked me to represent them, but I limit it to just a few managers at a time. Today I feel more strongly than ever that the emerging managers I represent, now proven in the market place and unburdened by vast portfolios, are ideal for institutions. If you are a first-time visitor to our website, or if you would like to receive material about our work, please call, e-mail or write to me personally. I love the investment business, and would be very happy to share my thoughts and experience with you.
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