Accretive Capital Management, LLC
Richard E. Fearon, Jr. - Founder and Managing Partner
Richard E. Fearon, Jr. founded Accretive Capital Partners in 2000, a private investment fund targeting undervalued small and micro-cap stocks of fundamentally strong public companies which represent attractive take-private candidates. The fund is long-only and employs the tools of private equity investing to its public market portfolio. Accretive Capital Partners has been nationally ranked by Morningstar, Barron’s, Bloomberg, and Lipper and has received The Investors Choice Award for Best Emerging Long Biased Equity Fund, Acquisition International's award for Best Micro-Cap Equities Fund, BarclayHedge's award for #1 Performance Ranking Among All Equity Long-Only Hedge Funds, and HFM Week Magazine’s award for Best Single Manager Long-Term Performance.
Prior to establishing Accretive Capital Partners, Mr. Fearon founded and managed the Chicago office of Allied Capital Corporation, a $3 billion private equity investment fund and the largest and oldest publicly-traded business development company in the United States until acquired by Ares Capital Corporation, serving from 1993 until 2000. Prior to 1993, Mr. Fearon was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Co. and PaineWebber Incorporated, working in the M&A and corporate finance departments. He earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business, attended the Stockholm School of Economics, and graduated with a double-major in Chemistry and Anthropology from Williams College. He was also a graduate of the Hopkins School, where he was a 1984 Connecticut State and New England Wrestling Champion and a National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete. He currently serves on the boards of the Hopkins School Alumni/ae Association, where he has been President and is an Emeriti Board Member, and the Ambassadors Committee of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Catalyst Network Foundation, a non-profit organization offering career development and networking tools to under-served and high-potential inner-city youths and veterans.
Prior to establishing Accretive Capital Partners, Mr. Fearon founded and managed the Chicago office of Allied Capital Corporation, a $3 billion private equity investment fund and the largest and oldest publicly-traded business development company in the United States until acquired by Ares Capital Corporation, serving from 1993 until 2000. Prior to 1993, Mr. Fearon was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Co. and PaineWebber Incorporated, working in the M&A and corporate finance departments. He earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business, attended the Stockholm School of Economics, and graduated with a double-major in Chemistry and Anthropology from Williams College. He was also a graduate of the Hopkins School, where he was a 1984 Connecticut State and New England Wrestling Champion and a National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete. He currently serves on the boards of the Hopkins School Alumni/ae Association, where he has been President and is an Emeriti Board Member, and the Ambassadors Committee of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Catalyst Network Foundation, a non-profit organization offering career development and networking tools to under-served and high-potential inner-city youths and veterans.