Francisco García Paramés

Francisco García Paramés (born in Galicia (Spain), 22 December 1963) is a Spanish fund manager. In 1989 he incorporated Bestinver Asset Management, from Acciona.

Self-taught, his management style is based on the strict application of the principles of the school of Value Investing (Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch), under the Austrian Business Cycle Theory.

He graduated in economics from the Complutense University of Madrid and has an MBA from IESE Business School (University of Navarra).

On 7 March 2006, he suffered a serious plane accident from which he survived with other two executives from the same company and in which the pilot and the chief financial officer of Bestinver died.

On 23 September 2014, he resigned from Bestinver because of differences with Acciona, owner of the Asset Management firm.

On 7 May 2016, he was made an honorary PhD in business by Francisco Marroquín University of Guatemala.

On 11 May 2016, his return to the investment funds management was publicly announced in September of the same year. On 26 September 2016, it was revealed that he would start his own Asset Management firm. At the end of that same year, he started his own fund management firm called Cobas Asset Management SGIIC, located at 45 José Abascal Street, Madrid. Provided by Wikipedia