Pasadena-based Poplar Forest Capital LLC Named Finalist for Emerging Manager of the Year Awards

Pasadena-based Poplar Forest Capital LLC has been named a finalist for the Emerging Manager of the Year Awards by Emerging Manager Monthly, a publication focused solely on Emerging Investment Managers.

Poplar Forest was selected as a finalist (Top 3) for Mid-Cap Equity. Nominees in seven categories were ranked based on the following criterion: excess returns over the benchmark, performance versus peers, product asset growth and product asset percentage growth, with the final 10 managers in each class ranked by information ratio.

“The Top 3 managers in each category will be handed over to a committee made up of industry experts in the plan sponsor and consulting communities. The committee will evaluate the merits of each firm based on quantitative and qualitative measures before selecting the winners, who will be announced in the April issue of Emerging Manager Monthly,” according to the publication.

“We are proud to be selected as a finalist for this award and believe it highlights the merits of our contrarian value investment philosophy,” commented Steve Burlingame, Portfolio Manager of the Poplar Forest Outliers Strategy.

Poplar Forest Capital, 70 South Lake Avenue, Pasadena, (626) 304-6000 or visit www.poplarforestllc.com.