Our Team
We are a Highly Motivated, Entrepreneurial, and Open Ecosystem
Investments & Research
We believe the best performance records in the investment industry have been created by small teams of creative, focused analysts.
Jeffrey Bronchick, CFA
Principal, Portfolio Manager
Austin Farris, CFA
Analyst
Trading, Operations & Compliance
We service some of the world’s largest pension plans and advisers – effortlessly.
Matt Weber
Principal, President
and Chief Compliance Officer
Investments & Research
We believe the best performance records in the investment industry have been created by small teams of creative, focused analysts.
Jeffrey Bronchick, CFA
Principal, Portfolio Manager
Jeffrey Bronchick, CFA is the Founder and a Portfolio Manager of Cove Street Capital (CSC). He has over 35 years of experience running research-driven, concentrated, value-based strategies across all market capitalizations. Prior to the founding of CSC, Jeffrey was the Chief Investment Officer and a lead principal of Reed Conner & Birdwell, LLC, a Los Angeles based investment manager. He was one of the first columnists for the TheStreet.com in the 1990s and then moved on to a similar role with Grant’s Interest Rate Observer’s first online effort. Jeffrey previously worked in equity research, sales, and trading roles at Neuberger Berman, Bankers Trust, and First Boston. He attended the London School of Economics and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics.
When he does not have his nose buried in an iPad reading SEC filings, Jeffrey’s interests include general husbandry, parenting twin girls, playing lead guitar for the “legendary” band Trouble at Home, and golf. He also remains open to any cash bet involving any racquet sport.
Austin Farris, CFA
Analyst
Austin Farris joined Cove Street in 2022 as an Analyst from Verdis Investment Management, a single-family office where he focused on sourcing and due diligence for their real estate and private equity teams. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics.
Outside of work and family, Austin can be found running, tweeting about tennis or basketball, or narrowly avoiding injury on the ski slopes. He is also the reigning Cove Street Ping Pong Champion.
Trading, Operations & Compliance
We service some of the world’s largest pension plans and advisers – effortlessly.
Matt Weber
Principal, President
Matt Weber is a Principal and Director of Trading & Operations. He joined Cove Street Capital in 2013 and became President in January of 2018. Matt brings over twenty-two years of experience from his work on both buy- and sell-side trading desks, covering both the long-only and hedge fund sides of the business. Matt started his career at Access Securities in Stamford, CT where he quickly rose to leading a sales trading team. Making the jump to the hedge fund universe in 2005, he became the head trader and operations expert at Lakeway Capital in El Segundo, and was most recently the Co-Head of Trading at Lombardia Capital in Pasadena, where he focused on both international and domestic trading. Matt holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of San Diego and is a UCLA Anderson Alumnus.
When not at work or with his family, Matt can be found working on way too many community based committees for public schools and acting as campaign manager for local elections. Matt continues his best Gilligan impression while sailing the coast of California on a 34-foot Catalina.
Business Development & Client Service
Partners, Not Clients
