Thomas S. White Jr. (born September 7, 1943) is an American
asset manager
Asset management is a systematic approach to the governance and realization of value from the things that a group or entity is responsible for, over their whole life cycles. It may apply both to tangible assets (physical objects such as buildings ...
residing in Chicago who is the founder, chairman and president of Thomas White International, Ltd.
Early professional life
After graduating from
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in 1965, White joined
Goldman Sachs & Co
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, entering a small executive trainee class that included future Treasury Secretary
Robert Rubin
Robert Edward Rubin (born August 29, 1938) is an American retired banking executive, lawyer, and former government official. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration. Before his government s ...
and future leveraged-buyout manager
Henry Kravis
Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.Lehman Bros. and Blyth, Eastman Dillon before establishing his own firm, Thomas White & Associates. During this period he began a close working relationship with
John Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged grow ...
and developed his proprietary method of value investing based on identifying the analytical tools appropriate to country, region or industry group.
White later became a Managing Director of the Chicago office of Morgan Stanley Asset Management. During his 14-year tenure as CIO for institutional value style portfolios and funds for the firm, he founded the Chicago Group, an independent arm of Morgan Stanley Asset Management.
Thomas White International
In 1992, White founded Thomas White International, Ltd. a money management and research firm based in Chicago. As Chief Investment Officer, he heads the firm’s Investment Team. The firm currently manages three mutual funds.