Sense & sensibility: Sanders Morris Harris Group blends the styles of value and pragmatism with growth and momentum. (Research Department Profile).

Buyside, May, 2002 by Chensvold, Christian M.

People expecting Texas-style ostentatious attitudes from the research department of Sanders Morris Harris Group are in for a surprise. Research Director John Olson calls the Sanders Morris Harris Group a conservative and low-profile outfit. "We have not been marching around with a high school band behind us," he says.

Still, in 10 years the firm has grown from a private equity private placement operation into the largest regional investment bank in the Southwest. Olson says the research department follows a pragmatic philosophy emphasizing value but that it is also on the lookout for growth and momentum stocks.

It's a pragmatism that, in Texas style, takes the work seriously, but not oneself. "There's an old saying that a research director is to a...

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