General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> August 27, 2001
ROGER E. KING, Chairman and President of King Investment Advisors, Inc.,
has been with the firm 22 years and has 32 years of experience in
investment management. A CFA and Chartered Investment Counselor, he has
a BA in Business Administration from Lipscomb University, an MA in
Political Science from Middle Tennessee State University, and he was a
National Science Fellow at Cornell University. King Investment Advisors,
Inc., was established in 1981, and Mr. King has served as President
since 1986. Before co-founding the firm, he was Senior Vice President
and Chief Investment Officer with Sun Life Group/Sun Insurance Services
in Atlanta, managing $700 million in securities. He served in a similar
capacity with GULFCO Capital Management (Gulf Life Holding Company), and
he began his investment career with the American General companies. He
served two years as President of the Jacksonville, Florida Financial
Analysts' Society. He is Chairman of the Investment Advisory Group,
Chief Investment Officer, a senior portfolio manager and a securities
analyst. He is also a member of the Houston Society of Financial
Analysts. Profile
PAT H. SWANSON is Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Securities
Analyst for King Investment Advisors, Inc. Mr. Swanson, a CFA and
Chartered Investment Counselor, has been with the firm eight years and
has 21 years of experience in the investment business. He is a graduate
of the United States Air Force Academy with a BS in Economics. He also
has an MBA from Pepperdine University. Mr. Swanson's business experience
includes four years as an Acquisition-Financing Specialist at First
RepublicBank in Dallas, where he managed a fixed-income portfolio of
senior secured private placements. His professional career includes five
years as a Contract Negotiator/Financial Analyst at Hughes Aircraft.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Swanson served as a Fixed-Income
Portfolio Manager for US WEST Financial Services for three years. He is
Director and past-President of the Houston Society of Financial
Analysts, and serves on the Continuing Education Task Force for AIMR. Profile
and your responsibilities there?
Mr. King: King Investment Advisors, Inc., was founded in 1981. We manage
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