Joseph Howard Davenport

Pointer Management provides investment advisory services to their funds using a fund-of-funds structure. The firm aims to achieve capital appreciation through a balanced level of risk primarily by allocation of funds' assets to a select number of long/short equity-based portfolio managers. They also invest to a lesser extent in portfolio managers focused on credit markets, commodities and private equity investments. Pointer Management seeks to achieve balance between risk and return in two main ways: (1) employment of a select group of portfolio managers to decrease Pointer's exposure to any single portfolio manager and (2) employment of portfolio managers who utilize diverse strategies and hedging in their individual funds. The firm believes in having a diversified portfolio but tries to narrow its core group of Portfolio Managers to 15-25 in total.

State chartered commercial bank