Caterina Prato is Portfolio Manager of AGF Canada Class, AGF Canadian Stock Fund and AGF Canadian Stock Class. She works closely with AGF’s Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice-President Martin Hubbes to carefully select companies that meet their stringent investment criteria and to manage the portfolios on a day-to-day basis. In April 2008, she also joined industry veteran Bob Farquharson on AGF Canadian Small Cap Fund.
As an experienced member of AGF’s North American Equities team, she generates investment ideas and evaluates and monitors companies, many of which become holdings for funds managed by AGF Funds Inc. She currently covers the information technology sector and has been responsible for other sectors in the past. She joined the AGF Fund Management team in 2004 as a generalist. Caterina began her career in 1997 as an investment analyst at Trimark Investments. She later joined Aegon’s investment team in 2001 as an assistant vice-president focusing on North American equities. She is a bottom-up fundamental business analyst and has covered companies in a variety of sectors. Caterina earned an MBA from the Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from University of Toronto. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Philosophy: Caterina uses a bottom-up growth style with the objective of identifying companies with rising sales, earnings and/or cash flow that are trading at a reasonable price. |