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Oak Value Capital Management, Inc., the Oak Value Fund's
Investment Adviser, is an employee-owned investment firm located
in Durham, N.C. The firm was founded in 1986 by two young
entrepreneurs with the good fortune to have studied sound,
successful investment principles and the vision to put them to
work. Over time we have attracted a focused core of like-minded
investment professionals who are passionate about implementing a
time-tested and disciplined philosophy: to buy above average
quality businesses at a discount from intrinsic value and to
generate superior investment results.
In addition to the Oak Value Fund, Oak Value manages individual
portfolios and operates as a sub-adviser for financial
intermediaries. We are value investors with an
objective to prudently grow capital over time. Our approach is
guided by the principles and techniques of Benjamin Graham and
Warren Buffett. From a strategic perspective, we do what we
suspect you would do if you were investigating an investment of
your own money in a business as a partner. We want to buy small
pieces of companies, via their publicly traded shares, that are
selling for a sizable discount from the rational price that a
knowledgeable acquirer would pay for the whole business. We
focus on buying good businesses with good management
at attractive prices, through independent research
focused on assessing a company, its leadership, and its
investment potential at different acquisition prices.
We do not believe that the stock market necessarily represents
accurate values for a company in the short term. Therefore, we
view the stock market as a wonderful mechanism that allows us to
buy and sell shares of high quality businesses.
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