The Company
Oberweis Asset Management, Inc. (“Oberweis”) was established in 1989 and is
headquartered in suburban Chicago. Oberweis is an independent investment
management firm that was founded to seek market inefficiencies in equities globally.
Oberweis offers its strategies to retail clients and institutional investors via separately
managed accounts (“SMAs”), its own proprietary mutual fund family, The Oberweis
Funds, a private fund, Oberweis International Select Fund, LLC and through the
provision of model portfolios. Established in 1989, Oberweis is headquartered in
suburban Chicago, with additional equity research staff based in New York, London and
Hong Kong.
Oberweis Culture
Oberweis is a bottom-up, active manager that searches for what we believe are superior
fundamental, growth, and valuation characteristics in equities globally.
The investment teams are led by James W. Oberweis. Teams are responsible for certain
geographic areas. Teams employ disciplined and repeatable investment processes that
focus on situations in which our proprietary analysis varies positively and materially from
the expectations of other investors.
The Oberweis culture promotes an entrepreneurial spirit. The team operates in a non-
bureaucratic environment that permits timely communication, processing of new
information, and nimble decision-making. Oberweis portfolios are managed by small
autonomous teams of professionals who are compensated for success and isolated from
bureaucracy.
Our People
Oberweis’ success starts with its people. Oberweis is 100% owned by its employees and
the Oberweis family, with James W. Oberweis as the principal shareholder. Many senior
professionals are also equity owners. Oberweis’ portfolio managers average 24 years of
experience in the industry.
Our Services
Our retail investment advisory service includes high net-worth clients with accounts
generally under $5 million in assets. Oberweis offers its retail advisory service both on a
discretionary and non-discretionary basis. Clients can select between a small-cap account
or a custom account. Small-cap accounts are invested in micro, small and medium
capitalization high growth stocks. Custom accounts are typically also invested in high
growth stocks, but a portion of those assets are invested in an appropriate mix of other
types of equity securities, mutual funds (including The Oberweis Funds), exchange-
traded funds and investment grade fixed income securities to seek to reduce volatility of
returns over time. Custom accounts are invested according to the specific investment
goals and risk preferences of each individual client.
All client accounts are generally invested in a concentrated portfolio of securities that is
suitable for the client based upon Oberweis’ understanding of the client’s financial
condition, investment objective and restrictions. Accordingly, a retail account investing
in a similar strategy that Oberweis offers to an institutional account is likely not to own
certain securities held by that institutional account and will experience different
performance from those other advisory accounts. Oberweis does not provide
comprehensive financial planning on behalf of its retail clients.
The Oberweis financial consultant responsible for establishing and monitoring the
client’s account will provide to the client, and, to the extent requested by the client, will
assist the client in completing an account application designed to elicit information
regarding the client’s financial situation (including cash flow needs), investment
objective, goal and restrictions. This information and subsequent discussions with the
client will be used by Oberweis to tailor the account’s risk profile and time horizon. The
financial consultant also is responsible for assisting clients in making any revisions to
their investment objectives should their financial position, investment requirements or
goals change. Because of the varying objectives and restrictions of client accounts, it is
likely that Oberweis will not be able to invest each account in an identical fashion.
Oberweis Securities, Inc. (“OSI”), a registered broker/dealer under common control with
Oberweis, executes substantially all trades for client accounts. Custody of most client
accounts are maintained by National Financial Services Corporation LLC (“Custodian”),
a registered broker-dealer, through which the transactions executed by Oberweis are
cleared, or such other brokerage firm, bank or other financial institution as the client may
choose. For further information on execution of trades and custodians, please see
Brokerage Practices below.
For certain international strategies, Oberweis may utilize investment research services
provided by its wholly-owned affiliates, Oberweis Asset Management (Hong Kong)
Limited (“OAMHK”), which are located in Hong Kong, and Oberweis Asset
Management UK Limited (“OAMUK”), which is located in the United Kingdom.
Oberweis also provides model portfolio services to certain unified managed account
program sponsors. In providing these services, Oberweis does not provide investment
advice to, nor does it have discretionary authority over, the accounts of the underlying
clients of the sponsor. In that regard, Oberweis has no knowledge of the program
sponsor's underlying clients, nor does it have any authority to effect trades on behalf of
the sponsor's clients in furtherance of the model strategy.
As of December 31, 2023, Oberweis’ total assets under management (both institutional
and retail clients) were $3,044,047,364, of which Oberweis manages $3,043,520,409 on a
discretionary and $526,955 on a non-discretionary basis.