David John Thomsen

SFE Investment Counsel, Inc. (SFE) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Earl Fisher in 1977. SFE provides investment advice and portfolio management services to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, retirement plans, businesses and institutional investors.

Founded in 1977, Stern Fisher Edwards, Inc. is an independent investment advisory firm and broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles. They use a top-down approach for their analysis. Their top-down analysis stats with global economic issues that impact the sectors they watch, and leads them to the specific industries and companies they follow. In picking stocks, they seek value in fundamentally sound businesses. They typically find it in small- and mid-cap companies, although their core holdings include large-cap companies. Stern Fisher likes dividend-paying stock with strong, customer-oriented management and solid growth potential. They prefer established firms that have retrenched or are launching new initiatives.