Martin Ferguson, a director and portfolio manager with Calgary-based Mawer Investment Management Ltd., will be wrapping up a 33-year investment career at the end of 2015. The firm announced Ferguson’s retirement, effective Dec. 31, on Thursday.
“As an integral part of the research team, he has helped to develop and improve Mawer’s time-tested investment philosophy and process,” the firm stated in a release announcing Ferguson’s retirement.
Co-manager of Mawer New Canada Fund, Ferguson is noted for having received various industry awards, including the Morningstar Award for “domestic equity fund manager of the year” in 2011 and 2014, the latter of which he shared with co-manager Jeff Mo.
Mo will become lead manager of the fund and other Canadian small-cap equity mandates on Oct. 1. Mo joined the firm in 2008 and has been co-manager of that fund since 2012.
Prior to joining Mawer in 1996, Ferguson was with the Investment Management Division of Alberta Treasury, a department of the Alberta government.
He began his investment career in 1982, with a stint as junior analyst of U.S. equities. After leaving the Alberta Treasury in 1985, he returned in 1987 as a senior analyst of U.S. equities and, in 1994, moved into the role of senior manager of equity research. In his time working for Alberta Treasury, he was also a member of its strategy committee, pension fund committee and private investments committee.