Research house van Eyk, has awarded its top "A" rating to three international small cap managers that all have a deep research process.
The three managers including Copper Rock Capital Global Small Cap Fund had in common a strong research process to identify quality listed companies at the smaller end of the market, as well as experienced research teams, said van Eyk head of ratings Matthew Olsen and lead analyst Varun Venkatraman.
van Eyk said ... the Copper Rock fund is led by three highly experienced portfolio managers including well known Wall Street small caps expert Denise Selden.
"(They) combined rigorous bottom-up research with a coherent, risk-aware portfolio construction process. We have conviction that (they) will add value for investors over a three to five year time frame," Ventkatraman said.
Extract taken from Money Management 3 February 2012.
