Bill Nasgovitz, Heartland Advisors - Opportunity in a Passive World | Keynote Presentation at the Planet MicroCap Showcase 2017

Keynote Presentation at the Planet MicroCap Showcase 2017 in Las Vegas, NV, given by Bill Nasgovitz, Chairman and CIO, and Portfolio Manager of the Heartland Value Fund and its corresponding Small Cap Value Strategy. He is also President and Director of Heartland Funds.

For more information about Bill Nasgovitz and Heartland Advisors, please visit: www.HeartlandAdvisors.com

About Heartland Advisors

Heartland Advisors is a boutique, independent investment firm in Milwaukee, WI. Our value-focused, actively managed product suite includes distinct U.S. and international investing strategies, which are offered through five mutual funds and four separately managed accounts.

About Bill Nasgovitz

Value investing has been a lifelong passion for Bill Nasgovitz, Chairman and CIO, and Portfolio Manager of the Heartland Value Fund and its corresponding Small Cap Value Strategy. He is also President and Director of Heartland Funds.

Disciplined investing has been central to Heartland Advisor’s investment philosophy since he founded the Firm in 1983. Nasgovitz developed Heartland’s proprietary 10 Principles of Value Investing™, which is the foundation for evaluating every security in all portfolios.

Under his leadership, Heartland's Value Fund has been noted by Forbes as having “done well...in both bear and bull markets over two market cycles.”* Long-term performance also earned the Fund a spot on the 2014 Mutual Fund Honor Roll, an acknowledgement of its attractive returns during stellar years and keeping losses in check during down periods.

Nasgovitz is a seasoned small-cap value investor with 48 years of experience, and he has been recognized by Morningstar as “a veteran micro-cap stock-picker.”** He also has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and Money.

He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s in business in 1966.