
Top Manager: Invest in The Next Info Revolution
By: Andrew Fisher
Posted December 21, 2007
Scott Billadeau spots where technology
is going next, and finds some very attractive stocks.
The portfolio manager for Fifth Third
Asset Management runs that firm's Lifemodel Aggressive Fund, which
is up 13.2 percent over the last five years.
He's got a lot to say about Nuance
Communications [NUAN]. "It's
all about productivity in the long run," Billadeau
told CNBC. "Nuance is the leader in speech-to-text and
text-to-speech technology, and we finally got processing power out
there that's capable of making this technology work."
He also likes PROS Holdings [PRO]
, a company that makes pricing and revenue optimization software. Here's
how it works:
"Most companies have a pricing system
that's, 'Here's the list price, and here's the discount, and here's
my favorite-company discount,' and, then, 'Gee, you're my good
buddy; I'm going to give you another 15 percent off,'" he
explained. "What their technology does is allow a business
to analyze how they can price their customers differently."
Billadeau owns both Nuance Communications
and PROS Holdings through his fund.
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