In earnest pursuit of excellent performance and outstanding client service, patience is our over-arching virtue. By taking a long-term view, we are able to build our firm around these core values:

• Focus

  By purchasing stocks that are undervalued, and patiently waiting for the market to recognize their true worth, we believe we can achieve long-term capital appreciation.  Given our commitment to patience, it makes perfect sense that we have adopted the tortoise, the victor in Aesop’s timeless fable, as our symbol, and the fable’s moral – slow & steady wins the race – as our creed.
  
  

• Independent Thinking

  We are a team of independent thinkers, industry watchers and disciplined decision makers.  We operate under the premise that financial success is achieved not by chasing the crowd, but by following our own convictions.

   

• Teamwork

  At Ariel, teamwork is how we get the job done.  Everyone has the opportunity to put his or her best ideas forward, and leverage his or her expertise to create the best possible solutions for shareholders.  Our employees share in the rewards and responsibilities of ownership in the firm.  Everyone at Ariel is an owner – from our receptionists to our president.  Moreover, by investing our own savings, profit sharing and retirement dollars in both our firm and the Funds, our personal financial success is squarely aligned with our clients and shareholders.