Founded in 2000 by Ron Gutfleish, Elm Ridge Management is a New York-based hedge fund manager specializing in value-oriented investments in public equity markets. The firm employs a blend of fundamental and technical analysis to guide its investment decisions.
Ron Gutfleish serves as the Portfolio Manager and managing member of Elm Ridge Capital. Prior to founding Elm Ridge, he held significant roles at Omega Advisors and served as Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer at HPB Associates, an equity hedge fund focused on value-based investments. Before his tenure at HPB, Ron Gutfleish was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he led the Active Value team and served as Senior Portfolio Manager for institutional strategies including Broad Market and MidCap, as well as Growth and Income and Balanced mutual fund strategies, which he co-founded in 1993. During his time at Goldman Sachs, these strategies grew to manage $6 billion in assets. Earlier in his career, Ron Gutfleish was a partner at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc., where he was the sole analyst on the Research Review Committee within the Investment Management Research Department. He began his career as an insurance analyst at Value Line. Ron Gutfleish graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1981 with a degree in Applied Math/Economics and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California Berkeley in 1987.
ELM Ridge Management manages discretionary assets totaling $148,825,317, as detailed in their Form ADV dated March 2024. The firm has a single client. According to their latest 13F filing for Q1 2024, ELM Ridge Management oversees $88,796,322 in 13F securities, with a top 10 holdings concentration of 54.59%. Their largest holding is Aercap Holdings N.V., comprising 71,954 shares.