Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc.

Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc is an investment management firm based out of San Mateo California. The company is owned by its employees and was originally established by its namesake cofounders in 1993. Fuller & Thaler Asset Management has grown from its inception to now operate with 16 employees, managing a total of 61 accounts, all of which are discretionary, that total up to over $2.8 billion in total assets. Both of its total number of accounts and total assets under management have been increasing in recent years with its total assets under management growing significantly from just over $1 billion five years ago to approaching three times that amount today. Fuller & Thaler Asset Management utilizes a bottom up investment approach with fundamental analysis, investing in the growth and value stocks of micro to small cap companies. The company invests in the public equity markets on a global scale, benchmarking its performance against a variety of Russell, EAFE, and other indexes. Fuller & Thaler Asset Management invests most heavily in the finance sector, which alone makes up almost a quarter of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the industrials, information technology, real estate, consumer discretionary, health care, utilities and telecommunications, and materials sectors, among other sectors to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. The company’s top 10 holdings make up just over a fifth of its total holdings and the company had a relatively high turnover rate of approximately 53.6% in the most recent quarter. Fuller & Thaler Asset Management mainly caters to high net worth individuals, which alone makes up over half of its client base, and also provides to pension and profit sharing plans, charities, investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, and corporations and other businesses, among others, in order of decreasing clientele.