Thomas J. O'Donnell

Congress Asset is a boutique asset manager focused on high quality equity and fixed income investing with a specialty in growth equities. The firm constructs high quality, high conviction, and high active share portfolios managed through a risk lens. They accomplish this through a disciplined, low turnover approach which emphasizes growth, profitability, franchise, and valuation. Congress Asset seeks to invest in companies with positive earnings growth, strong revenues, positive free cash flow, and sustainable margins, who demonstrate prudent use of leverage with shareholder conscious management teams. Their investment philosophy is to evaluate potential return per unit of risk using fundamental and relative valuations that employ a combination of top down and bottom-up techniques to deliver a consistent pattern of relative returns with minimal periods of underperformance.