small-cap

Small caps and European focused investment trusts topped the performance charts in the third quarter, while Japanese portfolios lagged, new data from Oriel Securities has revealed.

Hermes Fund Managers has launched a US small and mid-cap equity fund based on a strategy run by its US team for over a decade.

Broker Oriel Securities has compiled a ten strong list of investment trusts trading on discounts which are too attractive to ignore, while also naming ten companies which are too expensive to own.

Standard Life Investments has hired Kirsty Desson as an Asia Pacific analyst on Harry Nimmo's Global Smaller Companies fund.

Aberdeen Asset Management will launch a global small-cap equities fund for Stephen Docherty in late September.

BlackRock's Richard Plackett is to be joined by Roland Arnold as a co-manager on the £1.4bn UK Special Situations fund.

MAM Funds is hoping to as much as double the assets in Gervais Williams' Diverse Income trust through a C-share issue.

Pictet Asset Management's Adrian Hickey, head of Japanese equities, highlights five attractively valued small-cap stocks set to benefit from the nation's post-earthquake reconstruction spend.

The Share Centre has ditched T1PS Investment Management's Tom Winnifrith as manager of its two small-cap mandates in favour of former Unicorn founder Peter Webb.

Paul Marriage, Cazenove's top performing smaller companies fund manager, has highlighted five UK-listed companies he expects to outperform in spite of the problems facing the UK economy.