Westwood Holdings Group Named First in Pensions & Investments’ 2014 “Best Places to Work in Money Management”

Westwood Holdings Group (NYSE: WHG), a Dallas-based investment management firm, tops the list for the 2014 Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments magazine today. Westwood was ranked first out of five asset managers in the “100 to 499 employees” category for their vibrant company culture, promotion of a healthy work-life balance, emphasis on community service and other special benefits for employees.

Westwood's Annual Habitat for Humanity Build; Employees volunteer every year to build a home for Habitat for Humanity, just one of the many organizations we serve. (Photo: Business Wire)

“Serving our clients and our community have always been our top priorities,” said Brian O. Casey, CEO of Westwood Holdings. “Everyone at Westwood is a shareholder because we believe that owners work harder for clients than employees do. We provide numerous ways to support our community, some of which include building homes with Habitat for Humanity, volunteering at North Texas Food Bank, working with the Nebraska chapter of TeamMates Mentoring Program and making a monetary donation to the Massey Centre in Toronto. We also look for ways to regularly recognize our employees through a program called “You’ve Been Spotted,” which allows anyone in the company to nominate a colleague that they feel has gone above and beyond to help a client or the company. We try to be innovative in other incentives for our team such as quarterly events, early leave Fridays in the summer months, and regular meals for our staff. We treat everyone with respect, always look for ways to improve the company and ourselves, have some fun and celebrate long careers!”

“Our vision has continuously been to create an investment management company that would always put our clients first. In order to achieve this we’ve focused on providing our employees with an environment that ensures they come in every day ready to give their best. We measure our success not only based on our long-standing client relationships but also on the long tenure of our team members,” said Susan M. Byrne, Founder and Chairman of the Board.

The selection criterion was based on anonymous employee surveys, which made up 60% of the overall score with the remaining 40% coming from a corporate application. Topics that were evaluated included employee benefits, culture, office space and other unique characteristics of Westwood.

Learn more about Westwood’s winning culture at http://westwoodgroup.com/our-firm/

About Westwood

Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. provides investment management services to institutional investors, private wealth clients and financial intermediaries and manages $19.8 billion in assets*. The firm manages a range of investment strategies including U.S. equities, Global and Emerging Markets equities, Global Convertible securities, and Specialized/Income-oriented portfolios. Access to these strategies is available through separate accounts, commingled funds, the Westwood Funds® family of mutual funds and UCITS funds. Westwood benefits from significant, broad-based employee ownership and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WHG.” Based in Dallas, TX, Westwood also maintains offices in Toronto, Canada, Boston, MA, and Omaha, NE.

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*As of September 30, 2014

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