All Mid-Cap Equity articles – Page 4
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UK firms vulnerable to slowdown
Joseph Mariathasan finds that the UK economy has fared quite well since the Brexit vote, but smaller companies are vulnerable to any potential domestic slowdown
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Small and mid-caps and corporate governance: Battle for a common ground
We map the obstacles in the way of a unified approach to corporate governance in a Europe characterised by a north/south divide in small and mid-caps
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US small & mid-caps: In the land of the brave
Led by technology and healthcare, the US small-cap sector is the most dynamic in the world but some companies are becoming overvalued
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The case for listed small-caps
The liisted small-cap and mid-cap market could be a better place for investors to start when considering a move into private equity
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Asset Class ReportsSmall & Mid-Cap Equities: Digging for victory
Successfully investing in small and medium-sized companies involves getting to know the intricacies of how relatively simple businesses work
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Mid-caps: Time to take the middle road
Offering better outperformance than large-caps and more robust than small-caps, mid-caps are particularly attractive
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Investing In Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Starved of capital
Central bank policies are heading for divergent paths. Joseph Mariathasan looks into the likely impact on small and mid-sized stocks, where valuations are already exhibiting marked differentiation
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Investing In Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Focus from diversity
Rummaging through successful small-caps portfolios reveals a diversity of opportunity, finds Martin Steward. This diversity enables portfolio managers to express very well-defined styles in their portfolio risk
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Investing In Small & Mid-Cap Equities: The M&A effect
The M&A theme tends to be big in small-caps: these companies are growing, often via their own acquisitions; and becoming assets coveted by both LBO from below and large-caps from above. Our featured strategies feel its effects as both a blessing and a curse.
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Investing In Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Keeping it in the family
Germany’s Mittelstand shows why mom-and-pop shops, despite the risks, can create superior success from local networks and a longer-term view of their businesses. Joseph Mariathasan investigates
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Investing In Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Taking small-caps global
Brandes Investment Partners has been managing global small caps since 1997. “It’s a big pond with a lot of fish but very few anglers,” as director of investments Luiz Sauerbronn puts it.
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Investing In Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Northern exposure
While the Swedish stock market in general can be rather volatile, this goes to an even greater extent for Swedish small-caps. But as Caroline Liinanki finds, for those able to handle the short-term market movements investing in smaller Swedish companies has been a very profitable move
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Small companies, big valuations?
Joseph Mariathasan looks at small-caps around the world after a long period of outperformance, and finds plenty of reasons to believe that current valuations remain reasonable
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Put on a smart cap
Charlotte Moore weighs up the arguments for a range of ways to access smaller companies – approaches that all agree with common sense, but not always with one another
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: The cycle turns
Dispersion among the top-performing European small-cap managers could split along ‘quality growth’ versus ‘quality value’, writes Martin Steward
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Europe’s modest world-beaters
Cedric Durant des Aulnois argues that small-cap investors do not have to compromise on quality – and they can now also get it cheaper
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Hungry, growing, focused
In a world obsessed with the safe havens of multi-national mega-cap cash machines, Joseph Mariathasan revisits the case for smaller companies
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: So many stocks, so little time
Joseph Mariathasan considers the resource demands inherent in making the compelling global small-cap opportunity manageable
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Punching above their weight
Martin Steward takes a tour of some world-beating European companies with four leading small-caps managers
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Small & Mid-Caps: The 800-pound gorilla
UK exposure – or lack of it – has been decisive in European small and mid-caps. But Martin Steward finds that managers have also had to contend with a difficult ‘risk-on, risk-off’ environment
