Viewpoints by Gordon M. Marchand, CFA, CPA, CIC, Portfolio Manager at Sustainable Growth Advisers

Gordon is a principal, co-founder, and portfolio manager at Sustainable Growth Advisers. Prior to founding the firm in 2003, he was an officer and director of Yeager, Wood & Marshall, which he joined in 1984. Earlier in his career, Gordon was a manager with the management consulting service group at PricewaterhouseCoopers and a CPA with Grant Thornton International. Gordon earned a B.A. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst, Certified Public Accountant, and Certified Insurance Counselor designations.
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Converting volatility into opportunity
Focusing on high-quality growth companies is one way to take advantage of emotionally driven, short-term price dislocations, helping investors make the best of periods of rising volatility.
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