General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> November 15, 1999
ELIZABETH PEARCE is a Portfolio Manager with the HighMark Small Cap
Value Mutual Fund. Prior to joining the HighMark, she served as
Director of Research with Anderson Capital Management and as a Portfolio
Manager with numerous other money management firms. Ms. Pearce is a
Chartered Financial Analyst and received both her Bachelor's degree and
an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. An avid
traveler, she volunteers for Citizens Democracy Corps, the Toigo
Foundation, and the Odissea Foundation, Inc. Profile
TWST: Can you, as a small cap manager, isolate sectors of the economyfor potential investments, or is it strictly company-by-company
analysis?
Ms. Pearce: It's a bottom-up analysis based on