Steve Coleman

Stephen M. Coleman is the righteous Founder and majority shareholder of Daedalus Capital, L.L.C.  He has served as the Chief Investment Officer since October 1, 1994.  In the past fifteen plus years, Daedalus has earned over $100 million in profits for its Clients by investing in the stock market.  Mr. Coleman has direct responsibility for all client portfolios and bottom-line responsibility for performance.

Mr. Coleman has been a professional investor for 31 years.  His finance experience began on Wall Street in 1979 at Salomon Brothers.  He worked as a retail broker with Drexel Burnham Lambert in St. Louis, MO from 1981-1985.  He then became President of a real estate syndicator in Miami, FL.  In 1985  Mr. Coleman was President of S.M. Coleman and Company, a registered investment advisor from 1986-1989.  He worked for one year at Shearson Lehman Hutton from 1989-1990.  He was employed for four years by Prudential Securities as a Portfolio Manager from 1990-1994.  He founded Daedalus Capital, L.L.C. on July 1, 1994.  In addition, Mr. Coleman served as founder and/or CEO of several early-stage companies over the years.

Currently Mr. Coleman serves as Board President of the Wesley House Association in St. Louis, MO, a 107 year-old settlement house that serves the diverse needs of the north St. Louis area.

Daedalus Capital, L.L.C.  has won numerous national awards and recognition for its excellence as a growth equity manager.  Under Mr. Coleman's management, Daedalus Capital, L.L.C. has been ranked #1 by BarclayHedge for the three year period ending September 30, 2009 with an annualized return of 30.06%.  Daedalus was recognized by Money Manager Review for being the best manager in the USA for the one-year period ending December 31, 2007.  Pensions & Investments magazine's PIPER Database ranking Daedalus the #1 overall equity manger in the nation two times.  These top rankings were for the One Year Period ending September 30, 2003, and the Five Year Period ending September 30, 2000.  Pensions & Investments also ranked Daedalus as the #2 growth equity manager in the USA for the one-year period ending March 31, 2004.

Daedalus has generated positive returns using the Coleman Method,  its investment process.  It can be summarized by three short sentences.  Be focused.  Be patient.  Be right.  In essence, we buy Blue Chip Stocks and behave like long-term investors.  One of the challenges that Mr. Coleman has faced throughout his career is the fundamental disbelief by some that he could honestly generate such great returns.  Mr. Coleman responds with a line from a gospel song: "Let the work I've done speak for me."  The "haters" are greatly out-numbered by the righteous.

Mr. Coleman has been happily married to Judith Fagen Coleman for twenty-six years and they have a twenty-one year-old daughter, Stevie Lynn.  Mr.  Coleman was a graduate of Webster Groves High School in 1974.  He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1978.  He earned his M.B.A from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business in 1980.