The Driehaus International Growth Equities team focuses on investing in non-US companies through the Driehaus International Small Cap Growth strategy. The strategy provides investors with exposure to companies experiencing growth inflections in addition to positive earnings revisions and medium-term (price) momentum, two factors that are positively correlated to alpha generation. The team is led by portfolio managers Dan Burr and David Mouser.
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Ask Us!The strategy seeks to outperform the MSCI AC World ex USA Small Cap Growth Index over full market cycles.
* The Driehaus International Small Cap Growth team manages multiple international small cap strategies/ styles.
The team employs a growth-oriented investment philosophy focusing on identifying company-specific growth inflection points and exploiting associated marketplace inefficiencies. Our philosophy hinges on a belief that market expectations tend to be ‘anchored’ to historical information and that points of inflection therefore introduce dislocations between market expectations and fundamentals which generate significant alpha capture opportunities. The team combines bottom up fundamental and macro analysis with a nimble and active investment approach to identify inefficiencies and generate a portfolio which uniquely seeks to achieve superior aggregate growth rates as well as superior risk characteristics.
What a difference a year makes, or more appropriately a day makes. With the US Fed essentially confirming a much anticipated “pivot” at their latest meeting, markets not only climbed but leapt right over the wall of worry that stood in their way for most of the second half. The soft landing narrative, particularly for the US economy, continues to be shouted from the rooftops.
The first half of the year was predominantly characterized by style factor rotation – January and February saw outperformance from stocks that mostly underperformed in 2022, and then after Nvidia’s May guidance update, many technology hardware companies saw substantial multiple expansion – before any sign of improving fundamentals, and in some cases along with deteriorating fundamentals. However, the third quarter seemed to be a more typical environment, with companies who executed well and exceeded expectations seeing subsequent share price outperformance.