General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> September 1, 2003
STUART E. TEACH serves as the Senior Equity Portfolio Manager for the
employee benefit programs at National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association and at RE Advisers for the Homestead Value Fund and Small-
Company Stock Fund. The combined market value of all the portfolios he
manages is over $1.7 billion. He serves as an officer for RE Advisers
Corporation and RE Investment Corporation. He formerly held the
position of Vice President and Trust Investment Officer at AmSouth Bank,
NA, in Birmingham, Alabama. Before that, he was a Trust Investment
Officer at the First National Bank and Trust Company in Hamilton, Ohio.
He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Business Administration. He received his Master's of Business
Administration from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and also earned a
Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Profile
PETER R. MORRIS has been the Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
at National Rural Electric Cooperative Association since 1978 and is
also the Vice President and Director of Investments at RE Advisers
Corporation. He joined NRECA in 1974 as an Investment Analyst and now
oversees the investment of over $7.1 billion in benefit program assets
(managed both in-house and by outside money managers), RE Advisers Corp.
and Homestead Funds, Inc. He serves as an officer for RE Advisers
Corporation, RE Investments Corporation and the Homestead Funds Board of
Directors. In addition, he is on the Advisory Boards of Saugatuck
Capital Company and RFE Investment Partners. He is a member of the
Association for Investment Management and Research, the Washington
Society of Investment Analysts and the Washington Investment Forum. He
graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with an undergraduate
degree in Economics and he has done graduate work at the University of
Iowa. Profile
TWST: Please give us a brief overview of RE Advisers Corporation andyour respective responsibilities.
Mr. Morris: RE Advisers is the investment manager for Homestead Funds,
which was started