Michael P. Dever
Founder & CEO
Mike is the founder (in 1982) and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management, a featured subject of three books, numerous interviews and articles, and the author of a best-selling investment book. Brandywine has invested significant amounts over the past four decades in research to develop proprietary investment strategies and manage client assets pursuant to several successful investment programs. All of Brandywine’s investment programs are characterized by their ability to provide uncorrelated diversified returns or by the protection they provide against bear markets. Mr. Dever has also been a great early identifier of investment talent, allocating capital to other investment managers that went on to great success.
In addition to Brandywine, Mr. Dever became an Internet pioneer when he founded Spree.com in 1996. Spree.com pioneered the use of viral and affiliate marketing to grow into the world’s 7th most trafficked ecommerce site by the fall of 1998.
He also co-founded InternetSeer.com, which became the world’s largest web site monitoring company and is the co-inventor on a patent related to web site monitoring. He was instrumental in selling the company to Landmark Communications (then the owner of The Weather Channel).
Mr. Dever holds the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation and has a B.S. in Business from West Chester University.
Fun Facts:
As a high school pole vault coach, Mike coached three state medalists, an All-American and the previous (2018) Pennsylvania all-time state record holder (17’)
Mike is an Eagle Scout, coach for Special Olympics and instrument-rated private pilot.
Mike’s proudest accomplishment has been raising three great boys with his wife Kim, a nurse with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Mitchell was the Pennsylvania State Special Olympics Ski Champion, Matthew is a graduate of Penn State and co-founder of Scrimmage, a sports marketing company. Matthew is also the Guinness Book World Record holder in the American football long snap (41.5 yards). And Charley is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and on active duty with the U.S. Navy.
You can read more, including numerous business and personal references for Mike at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikedever/.
Brandywine Team
Robert Proctor
CFA, Head of Trading and Technology
DJ Paik
Client Relations Support
Chaitanya Ananthuni
Financial Services and Operational Support
History of Innovation
Founded in 1982, Brandywine Asset Management, Inc. has a long history of investment research, innovation and trading. Over the past four decades, some of the world’s largest investors, including money center banks, corporate pension plans, hedge funds and large family offices have entrusted their money to Brandywine.
In the early 1990s Brandywine developed a portfolio risk allocation methodology focused on predictability of returns rather than optimization of past performance. Coincident with this development was the innovation of “Return Driver” based investing, which focuses on creating truly diversified portfolios using disparate “Trading Strategies” rather than relying on asset class allocations. This provides investors with the ability to profit across a broad range of market conditions and results in performance that is uncorrelated to all major investment benchmarks, including stocks, bonds, real estate and hedge funds. In 2011, Brandywine’s founder published a best-selling book that revealed Return Drivers to the public.
In 2023 and 2024, Brandywine expanded on this extensive legacy of investment management with the launch of two product suites. The 15 funds are all based on Brandywine’s innovation of Risk Replacement and the underlying philosophy that “Reduced Loss = Increased Returns.”
Brandywine Collective Investment Trust, which provides a suite of nine core Enhanced Funds and five Target Date Funds to 401(k) and other qualified retirement plans. Every Fund employs downside protection as a new fiduciary standard designed to mitigate sequence of return risk.
Safer Equity Fund LP, developed for high net worth and institutional investors. Brandywine extends the successful 14-year performance record of this hedge fund with the introduction of Risk Replacement. This positions the Fund to seek to exceed the returns of the S&P 500 as a result of exposing investors to reduced risk.
Advisory Board
Don Trone
CEO, "Father of Fiduciary"
Shane Stiles
Founder and President of Gate 39
Stephen Ponder
Executive Vice President of Alta Trust
Jessica Brown
Compliance Specialist at Ruddy Gregory, PLLC
Matthew Dever
CEO of Scrimmage
Charley Dever
Active Duty, U.S. Navy
Doug Bloom
Executive Coach
