Ryan Thomes

Ryan Thomes, CFA, is a Portfolio Manager at Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC in Los Angeles, CA, where he leads the Small Company Value Portfolio and serves on multiple portfolio manager teams. His main responsibilities include portfolio management, broad analytical support, crafting investment strategy commentaries, and liaising between investment and client services teams. He specializes in managing undervalued small-cap stocks, targeting sectors often underfollowed by mainstream Wall Street research, with a particular focus on companies with strong balance sheets and attractive assets.

Mr. Thomes's investment expertise is centered on small-cap value equities and he utilizes proprietary valuation models developed in collaboration with Hotchkis & Wiley’s veteran research team. Before joining Hotchkis & Wiley in 2008, he was a global equity senior research associate at Jeffrey Slocum and Associates, Inc., focusing on equity manager due diligence and investment research projects, and began his career as a research analyst at Berthel Schutter LLC, conducting due diligence on both equity and fixed income strategies.

Ryan holds a BS in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance from the University of Minnesota and is a CFA charterholder. With over 17 years at Hotchkis & Wiley and more than 23 years of investment industry experience, Thomes is recognized for his analytic acumen and his ability to identify undervalued opportunities among smaller public companies, helping to drive differentiated results for institutional and individual investors.