Don has worked as an investment and finance professional in Europe for the past fifteen years and spent the last eight years identifying, analyzing and managing portfolios of undervalued securities in the European equity and distressed debt markets. Prior to that he spent seven years in corporate and investment banking. He has worked in Dublin, London, Frankfurt and Paris. He completed the CFA program in 2006 and graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a first class honours degree in Business Studies and German in 1996.
Don co-manages the Tocqueville Value Europe fund. The fund’s multi-capitalization investment strategy is contrarian and value-oriented and stock selection is bottom-up, based upon intensive proprietary research and a disciplined investment process. Don is rated A by Citywire for risk-adjusted returns and the fund ranks among the top-performing European equity mutual funds over the past decade with five out of five ratings from Lipper in all categories and a five-star Morningstar rating.
Tocqueville Finance is a Paris-based value house with €1.8 billion in assets under management. The company has followed a value investing philosophy since its foundation in 1991.