KORNITZER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC /KS

Kornitzer Capital Management is an investment management company based out of Shawnee Mission, Kansas. The company was founded in 1989 by John Charles Kornitzer, who was previously the Vice President of Investments for Employers Reinsurance Corp and is currently the company’s CEO. Kornitzer Capital Management conducts its research internally, using a “variety of fundamental evaluation methods while dissecting vast amounts of data, visiting companies as well as their competitors and suppliers, and writing formal research reports.” The company also utilizes its own proprietary financial models and use multiple valuation methodologies to derive a security’s intrinsic value, developing its process over the years into a “disciplined practice of discovery, investigation, and implementation.” Kornitzer Capital Management invests in various public equity and fixed income markets on a global scale, utilizing a bottom up investment approach to invest in the growth stocks of companies. The company invests most heavily in the information technology sector, which alone makes up approximately a fifth of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the consumer discretionary, industrials, health care, consumer staples, energy, and finance sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. Kornitzer Capital Management currently has 42 employees of which 25 are investment professionals. The company holds over $10 billion in total assets under management spread across over 4,700 accounts, all of which are discretionary accounts except for 160. Both of Kornitzer Capital Management’s total number of accounts and total assets under management have been increasing in recent years with its total assets growing from $3.4 billion to almost three times that amount today. Kornitzer Capital Management caters mainly to individuals, which alone makes up over half its client base, and also provides for high net worth individuals, banks, pension and profit sharing plans, charities, investment companies, and others, in order of decreasing clientele. The company offers mutual funds through its subsidiary Buffalo Funds.