General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> October 1, 2001

Anthony Maramarco – David L. Babson & Company

ANTHONY M. MARAMARCO is Managing Director at Babson Capital Management LLC where he is lead manager of the Babson Value Fund and Shadow Stock Fund. He began his career in investments as an Analyst at Connecticut National Bank in 1981, moved to MassMutual in 1985, and joined the David L. Babson Company when Concert Capital Management (an equity management subsidiary of MassMutual) merged with Babson in 1996. He is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society and the Hartford Society of Financial Analysts. He served as President of the Hartford Society in 1991-1992 and was a regional representative of the Association for Investment Management and Research from 1992 to 1994. Dr. Maramarco graduated from Colby College in 1971, received his MA in 1973 and PhD in 1977 from the University of Chicago. He earned his MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1988. Dr. Maramarco taught graduate courses in Investments, Finance and Accounting at the Hartford and Groton campuses of RPI from 1985 to 1999. He also developed and taught review courses in Ethics, Portfolio Management and Equity Analysis for the Hartford Society's CFA program from 1990 to 1998. He is a frequent guest on CNBC's and Bloomberg TV's Market Watch and 'stock-picking' programs. He has also appeared on Reuters TV and has been quoted extensively in many financial publications. His outside activities include golf, theater going, running and crossword puzzles. Profile
TWST: Could you give us a brief history and overview of the Babson Value

Fund?

Mr. Maramarco: The Babson Value Fund opened for business in the fourth

quarter of 1984, and for the first 15