Skerrits Wealth Management has made a ‘big play’ into European small cap equities believing the predictions of political turmoil on the continent this year have been something of a ‘red herring’.
European equity mid- and small-cap funds have outperformed their large cap counterparts by a factor of five over the past two years. Why has this been the case, and will the outperformance endure?
With Japan being one of few favoured sons in the equities world at the moment we decided to put two of the best performing Japanese smaller companies funds head to head.
UK equity vehicles were the stand-out underperformers as the number of flagging funds rose significantly in the past four months, according to research by Chelsea Financial Services.
Forecasts are tough in any business, says Robert Harvey, manager of Matthews Asia’s Asia Small Companies Fund, but politics is tougher than most to divine the outcome of future market events.
M&G Investments has significantly altered the personnel running its equities offerings.
Harwood Multi-Manager’s manager Richard Philbin looks at six UK smaller companies funds that are worth monitoring.
According to AXA’s Henry Lowson small caps continue to offer a premium growth opportunity over the medium term.
This week’s Head-to-Head sees the Old Mutual UK Smaller Companies Fund battle it out with the SLI UK Smaller Companies Fund.
Peter Webb remains confident investors in his Smaller Companies Growth Fund should prepare for one of the biggest turnaround stories this century.
Leaving Investec is Philip Rodrigs, who joins River & Mercantile.
So, paper talk says Gareth Bale will be leaving Tottenham for Real Madrid for a record fee in the next few days. But who, ahem, in the fund world are the best performers under the magic £100m mark?
