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Stephen M. Coleman is one the best equity managers in
the United States. He succeeds because he buys Blue Chip Stocks and
behaves like a long-term investor. He founded and is the majority
shareholder of Daedalus Capital, L.L.C., a St. Louis, MO-based firm. He
has served as the Chief Investment Officer of Daedalus since inception in 1994.
In the past sixteen 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 calls his investment process
the Coleman Method. It is simply this:
be focused; be patient; be right.
Mr. Coleman has grown Daedalus clients' money consistently, regardless
of general market conditions.
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.
Civically, Mr. Coleman serves as Board
President of the Wesley House Association (WHA). He joined the WHA board in 2002 as Treasurer
and has served as President since 2005. WHA is a pillar of the St. Louis
community. Mr. Coleman has served on over 30 civic and non-profit boards
since 1970.
Mr. Coleman has been happily married to Judith
Fagen Coleman for twenty-six years and they have a delightful twenty-one
year-old daughter. Mr. Coleman graduated from 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.
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