IKANO selects Fisher to manage small cap value equity for its Portable Alpha Fund

U.S.-based asset manager Fisher Investments announced IKANO Fund Management’s recent decision to hire Fisher Investments to manage a small cap value equity portion of its Portable Alpha Fund and its US Small Cap Equity Fund.

Fisher Investments, a global money manager headquartered in California, has one of the longest performance histories in small cap value equity management, serving an impressive roster of institutional clients for over 20 years.

“We are pleased IKANO selected Fisher Investments as a fund manager,” said Andrew Teufel, co-president and director of research at Fisher Investments. “IKANO is Fisher Investments’ first European institutional client, and we hope to have future opportunities in the UK and the rest of Europe to provide our investment management services to other institutions, as well as individual investors through our Private Client Group.”

Fisher’s managers talked to Opalesque about the Fisher Investments Institutional Group Small Cap Value: “Our FIIG Small Cap Value strategy (Small Cap Value) has offered clients excess return (as measured against the Russell 2000 Value Index) in a variety of market environments. …

“Our Small Cap Value strategy utilizes a bottom-up stock selection investment process supported by top-down themes. The strategy seeks to identify strategic attributes in companies undervalued by the marketplace.....

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IKANO selects Fisher to manage small cap value equity for its Portable Alpha Fund

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