Villere & Co

Villere St. Denis J. & Co. LLC is an investment management firm based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. The company was originally established in 1911 and has been operated by the Villere family for over a century. Villere St. Denis J. & Co. LLC conducts its research internally, utilizing a fundamental methodology to make its investment decisions. The company focuses on the public equity and fixed income markets within the United States, allocating its assets in a variety of sectors and benchmarking its performance against the Russell 3000 Index. Villere St. Denis J. & Co. invests most heavily in the information technology sector, which alone makes up over a fifth of the firm’s total asset allocations, and also invests in the industrials, consumer discretionary, finance, health care, energy, consumer staples, and real estate sectors, among other sectors to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. The company holds its allocations for just under 21 quarters on average although the firm only holds its top 10 allocations for less than 5 quarters on average. In the most recent quarter, Villere St. Denis J. & Co. has had a turnover rate of approximately 6%. Villere St. Denis J. & Co. manages over $2.3 billion in total assets under management spread across 689 total accounts, all of which are discretionary accounts except for 10 that make up $24 million of its managed assets. Both of Villere St. Denis J. & Co.’s total number of accounts and total assets under management have been increasing in recent years with its managed assets growing significantly from $1 billion back in 2010 to well over twice that amount today. The company mainly caters to high net worth individuals, which alone makes up over half of its client base. Villere St. Denis J. & Co. currently offers its Balanced Fund and Equity Fund.