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Contravisory Research & Management was established by Edward Noonan in 1972. Ed had been associated with several investment firms as a bond & equity research analyst prior to the founding of Contravisory, including Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance, Advest, and Fidelity Investments. After earning the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1968, he joined Fidelity as a special-situation analyst and personal assistant to Mr. Edward C. Johnson II, Chairman. It was in this position where he was introduced to a quantitative/technical investment model which has become the central input to Contravisorys equity research and investment management recommendations. At Fidelity, Ed learned the critical importance of objectivity and discipline in the management of financial assets which can be achieved through the use of a quantitative/technical system. During his Fidelity tenure he was introduced to Hays Ray, a widely recognized leader in the investment specialty of industry-focused relative strength research. Hays began his career as an investment consultant in 1930 and established a long-term relationship with Fidelity beginning in 1948. The Ray*Signals relative trend research service became the core input to the ContraSignals service which Ed introduced to leading money managers in the fall of 1972. In the early-80s Contravisory started to apply the quantitative/technical approach to the management of a select number of individual portfolios. The investment management of individual and corporate portfolios continues with the core input from its relative trend research disciplines. The confluence of turbulent financial market conditions and a realization that the Contravisory model is very well suited for such an environment, the Contravisory Fund LP was launched in July 1999. This initial fund was created as a long-biased diversified all-equity fund. The long-standing, and highly proven, Contravisory Equity Portfolio would be the source of most long positions. Short positions would emerge from the most negative signals as determined by the research service. Contravisorys proprietary methodology, supported by its real-time data base of more than 600,000 buy/sell signals, and proven by its application over a diversity of market cycles since 1972 has positioned the firm uniquely in the U.S. investment community as a highly-competent independent research provider and highly-disciplined equity manager.

 

Address: 99 Derby Street, Suite 302, Hingham, MA 02043
Telephone: (781) 740-1786
Website: http://www.contravisory.com/