Sharp looks to management for the edge

stuart sharp, Rensburg

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Getting out and meeting the people that run the companies in which he invests has been the secret of success for Rensburg's small-cap manager

Rensburg's Stuart Sharp meets the management of over 350 companies a year to find the best stocks for his small-cap portfolios. The manager is responsible for the group's UK Smaller Companies and UK Micro-Cap Growth Funds plus a quarter of the stocks on the UK Managers' Focus vehicle. A lawyer by trade, he joined Rensburg in 1991 and took over the smaller companies vehicle in 1995 from Paul Spencer. The latter left to join a stockbroking firm but Spencer has since returned to Rensburg as a fund manager in the last 15 months. "It was a natural progression at Rensburg to launch the smaller...

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