John E. Pihlblad

Director of Research - Equity at

Principal Global Investors LLC

74 year

Finance

Consumer Services

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Mr. John E.
Pihlblad, CFA MBA, is a Managing Director of Advanced Research at Principal Global Investors LLC.
He joined the company in 2000 as a Portfolio Manager and led the development of the firm's proprietary Global Research Platform.
He was named Managing Director of the firm's Advanced Research team in early 2018.
He overseas our dedicated team of quantitative research specialists, as well as our growing community of university and expert network resources, in collaboration with the Principal Data Science team.
He has over 35 years of investment experience, including 25 years of experience in managing international and global equities mandates.
Previously, he was a Partner and Co-founder of GlobeFlex Capital.
Prior to that, Mr. Pihlblad was a Portfolio Manager at Nicholas Applegate, where he developed one of the first global systematic investment processes in the industry.
He was also Director of Equity Research at Boatmen's Trust Company.
Mr. Pihlblad received his undergraduate degree from Westminster College (Utah) and an MBA from the University of Missouri.

John E. Pihlblad active positions

Companies	Position	Start
Principal Global Investors LLC Principal Global Investors LLC Investment ManagersFinance Principal AM has divided their investment management operations into several unique boutiques. The equities boutiques render advice primarily for equity securities. They utilize internally generated fundamental research that focuses on bottom-up stock selection within a sophisticated comparative framework. The fixed income boutique renders advice primarily for debt securities. Their currency boutiques render advice for active and passive currency. Applying a fundamental-discretionary, macroeconomic theme-based investment approach to portfolio management, the strategies include absolute return as well as base currency hedging strategies.	Director of Research - Equity	01/01/2018

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Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management Investment ManagersFinance Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management employs a forward-thinking, change-focused investment philosophy to create domestic and international portfolios across fundamental and systematic equity, income and growth strategies. The firm's investment approach seeks to identify points of inflection that could lead to strong price appreciation and to invest in a timely manner to maximize return potential. The firm's range of investment strategies include domestic, global, international and specialty portfolios. Each portfolio follows one of two approaches: traditional or model-driven (systematic). Nicholas-Applegate tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the electronic technology, health technology, technology services, consumer non-durables and finance sectors. The firm invests globally, across all market-caps. Nicholas-Applegate maintains a medium turnover rate.	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
Boatmen's Trust Co. (Missouri) Boatmen's Trust Co. (Missouri) Investment ManagersFinance Investment advisor	Corporate Officer/Principal	30/09/2009
GlobeFlex Capital LP GlobeFlex Capital LP Investment ManagersFinance GlobeFlex emphasizes US and International equity management using a systematic approach to pursue certain investment strategies with the general objective of maximizing total returns subject to each client’s risk profile and investment guidelines. The firm generally buys and sells securities on the principal stock exchange or over-the-counter market of the country in which the principal offices of the security issuer are located.	Corporate Officer/Principal	31/12/1999

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Boatmen's Trust Co. (Missouri) Boatmen's Trust Co. (Missouri) Investment ManagersFinance Investment advisor	Finance
Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management Investment ManagersFinance Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management employs a forward-thinking, change-focused investment philosophy to create domestic and international portfolios across fundamental and systematic equity, income and growth strategies. The firm's investment approach seeks to identify points of inflection that could lead to strong price appreciation and to invest in a timely manner to maximize return potential. The firm's range of investment strategies include domestic, global, international and specialty portfolios. Each portfolio follows one of two approaches: traditional or model-driven (systematic). Nicholas-Applegate tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the electronic technology, health technology, technology services, consumer non-durables and finance sectors. The firm invests globally, across all market-caps. Nicholas-Applegate maintains a medium turnover rate.	Finance
GlobeFlex Capital LP GlobeFlex Capital LP Investment ManagersFinance GlobeFlex emphasizes US and International equity management using a systematic approach to pursue certain investment strategies with the general objective of maximizing total returns subject to each client’s risk profile and investment guidelines. The firm generally buys and sells securities on the principal stock exchange or over-the-counter market of the country in which the principal offices of the security issuer are located.	Finance
Principal Global Investors LLC Principal Global Investors LLC Investment ManagersFinance Principal AM has divided their investment management operations into several unique boutiques. The equities boutiques render advice primarily for equity securities. They utilize internally generated fundamental research that focuses on bottom-up stock selection within a sophisticated comparative framework. The fixed income boutique renders advice primarily for debt securities. Their currency boutiques render advice for active and passive currency. Applying a fundamental-discretionary, macroeconomic theme-based investment approach to portfolio management, the strategies include absolute return as well as base currency hedging strategies.	Finance
University of Missouri University of Missouri Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Westminster College (Utah) Westminster College (Utah) Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services