The Villere family, owners and operators of investment advisory firm Villere & Co., received the 2011 Tulane Family Business Center Outstanding Family Enterprise Award.
St. Denis J. Villere and Co., a 100-year-old family-owned investment management company, is the 2011 recipient of the Tulane Family Business Center’s Outstand Family Enterprise Award.
The award, presented annually by the Tulane Family Business Center, was presented at the center’s annual Wealth Management Seminar, which took place in April at the Intercontinental Hotel in New Orleans.
Villere & Co. was founded in New Orleans in 1911 by St. Denis J. Villere as a sole a proprietorship involved in public underwriting and brokerage of local stocks and bonds. Villere’s son Ernest C. Villere joined the company in 1926 and, following his father’s death, moved the company into investment advisory services. Today, under the leadership of family members St. Denis J. Villere II, George G. Villere, George V. Young and St. Denis J. Villere III, the firm has more than 600 individual and institutional investor clients and more than $1 billion in assets under management.
The Tulane Family Business Center was established in 1992 to assist family-owned enterprises with the unique issues and challenges they face in growing and prospering from one generation to the next. Operated under the auspices of the Freeman School’s Levy- Rosenblum Institute, the Tulane Family Business Center sponsors seminars, lectures and programs featuring nationally recognized experts on family business issues as well as providing consulting services and networking opportunities for family business members.
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