Sanford DeLand's Free Spirit manager Eric Burns on the UK as a 'dirty word'

Manager Eric Burns

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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As the UK smaller companies sector has suffered, with the FTSE Small Cap offering volatile returns since its Covid recovery, the UK has become "a dirty word, and small cap is even dirtier”, manager of the Sanford DeLand Free Spirit fund Eric Burns has argued.

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