PORTFOLIO MANAGERS

The Nicholas Team
Nicholas Company’s portfolio managers and analysts form a stable, experienced team whose goal is to find investment opportunities that help our shareholders pursue their goals. The members of our team have more than twenty-five years industry experience, and our portfolio managers have an average tenure with the Nicholas Company of twenty years.

Lawrence J. Pavelec, CFA
Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager

Lawrence J. Pavelec manages Nicholas Company’s high yield fixed income products, including Nicholas High Income Fund, and separately managed accounts. Larry is a seasoned portfolio manager employing a bottom-up, value approach to fixed income selection.  Searching for high quality securities of companies that are under valued in the marketplace. Larry also serves on the Senior Management Committee and is responsible for the Marketing and Distribution Group at Nicholas Company.

Larry has 17 years investment experience as a portfolio manager and analyst. He joined Nicholas Company in 2003 leading the high yield fixed income and marketing efforts for the firm.

Larry is an avid golfer, downhill skier, and youth basketball coach.  He earned his B.S. in Finance from the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and a member of the Milwaukee Investment Analysts’ Society.