All Small cap articles
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White papersPositive on Equities, Cautious on the S&P 500
Why we think 2025 could bring a long-awaited reward for the discipline of diversification.
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White papersUS Small Cap. Setting the Stage for 2025
U.S. small-cap indices have pulled ahead of large-cap indices over the past three to six months, and through the first half of 2025, we anticipate further catch-up in both stock prices and, for higher-quality small caps, earnings growth. We believe government spending, tax cuts, trade realignments, deregulation and conducive industrial policies will boost US smaller businesses.
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White papersAre global small caps ready for a return to favour?
Premier Miton’s Imogen Harris, Global small cap fund manager, discusses how a recovery in global economic conditions and a mean reversion back to more normalised valuation levels could see a risk-reward balance that swings back in favour of smaller companies.
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White papersSmall Caps: What You Don’t Know But Should
Small cap stocks span a wide range of characteristics and performance drivers that we believe index funds are not built to exploit.
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White papersKey Implications of Trump 2.0 for Private Equity
While the policies and implications of Trump 2.0 are difficult to predict, we remain optimistic about private equity’s ability to navigate change in a dynamic environment and potentially deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.
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White papersSmall Caps: To Index or Not to Index
More investors are taking a passive approach to small caps. Should they?
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White papersOpportunities and Challenges of Trump 2.0
Chief Investment Officer Sean Taylor considers the implications of a second Trump administration for emerging markets.
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White papersWhy small is beautiful
While mega caps have consumed much of investors’ attention in recent years creating extreme levels of market concentration, great things have been happening ‘behind the scenes’ at some of Europe’s lesser-known corporates. We’re discovering overlooked small-cap gems that offer both attractive portfolio diversification benefits and the potential for double-digit returns.
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White papersWD-40, the graveyard cabinet and a hunt for special smaller companies
I spend about nine weeks a year in a rental car looking for companies all over the world, discovering their products, operations and customers. Here’s what I’m looking for.
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White papersSmall Caps: The Next Cycle Is Upon Us
We believe higher-quality small caps look poised to outperform their large-cap peers over the near- to mid-term.
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White papersRates Relief or Slowdown Uncertainty?
Our outlook for lower rates and a soft landing favors U.S. small caps, and we are watching China’s new stimulus closely for its impact on global cyclical assets.
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White papersEquity Market Outlook 4Q 2024
Despite a slowing U.S. economy, we reaffirm many of our Q3 recommendations and think the odds of an imminent recession remain low.
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White papersEconomics line up for extended SMID catch-up
Long outperformed by large-cap stocks, small and mid-caps (SMID) have recently shown signs of a trend reversal, which could enable them to make up lost ground. Current market conditions present a turning point for investors to look at a segment where high-conviction active managers have historically delivered alpha.
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White papersIs small cap M&A the catalyst investors have been waiting for?
Paul Marriage Fund manager of the Tellworth UK Smaller Companies Fund discusses the recent wave in M&A among UK small caps and the strong message this sends about the sector.
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White papersSDG Engagement Equity, H1 2024 report
As responsible investors, it’s important that all the sustainability claims we make are credible and we focus on the issues that matter. The same should be expected of our investee companies. In this report we provide colour on the ongoing engagement dialogues we have been having with our holdings.
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White papersGlobal small caps: headwinds turning into tailwinds
Alan Rowsell, fund manager of the Premier Miton Global Smaller Companies Fund, looks at what has affected small caps around the world and whether the odds are in favour for a small cap resurgence.
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White papersGlobal Investment Views - September 2024
When central banks are cutting rates and risks of a US recession are limited, we remain disciplined and mildly positive on risk assets.
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White papersA time and place for small cap equities
After handily outperforming both large caps and the broader U.S. equity market for the one-year period following the COVID recession in the spring of 2020, small cap stocks have since lagged, despite posting healthy double-digit gains in two of the past three calendar years. This performance gap reflects in part the narrow but persistent market leadership of a few high-flying mega cap technology companies supported by artificial intelligence (AI) tailwinds.
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White papersA Change in Leadership?
As Biden withdraws, we are seeing an historic rotation into small-cap stocks and a growing opinion-polling lead for Donald Trump—are the two things related? “What I write here on Friday could be out-of-date by the time you are reading it on Monday,” said Joe Amato, in last week’s commentary on the rise in political volatility.
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White papersA Soft Landing Is Still a Landing
What do slowing growth, lower inflation, tight credit spreads and a steepening yield curve mean for our fixed income views for the rest of the year? If the big story of the moment in equities is the epic rotation out of mega-cap stocks and into smaller companies, the equivalent in fixed income is the ongoing, sharp unwind of a record-breaking U.S. yield curve inversion.
