River Road Asset Management, LLC is an institutional investment management firm founded in April 2005 by veteran value investor James C. Shircliff.  Along with firm co-founders R. Andrew Beck and Henry W. Sanders, III, Mr. Shircliff formed River Road based upon an ‘Absolute Value’ investment discipline that he developed during his 38 year career as an investment analyst and portfolio manager.

Prior to founding River Road, Mr. Shircliff held prominent roles at several distinguished investment firms, including serving as Portfolio Manager at Oppenheimer Management Company (Target Fund) and Director of Research / Portfolio Manager at Southeastern Asset Management (Longleaf Funds).  In 1997, Mr. Shircliff joined SMC Capital, Inc., where he assembled the team and launched the Portfolios that would in 2005 become River Road Asset Management.

With more than $5.6 billion in assets, Louisville, KY-based River Road provides institutional separate account and investment sub-advisory services to a broad range of domestic and international clients.