Small Cap Growth

Why This Strategy?

  • The strategy seeks to invest in small-cap companies that can sustain a higher level of growth for a longer period of time than the market expects
  • The strategy’s focus on the long term allows the team to seek to exploit inefficiencies derived from the short-term focus of other investors
  • The investment team employs a differentiated approach
Key Facts

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Key Facts 
Inception Date1/1/1994
BenchmarkRussell 2000® Growth Index

 

Investment Philosophy
  • Quality companies embody long-term corporate success given experienced and incentivized management teams, differentiated business models, and attractive financial characteristics
  • We believe our ability to outperform is driven by seeking to exploit three market inefficiencies among stocks of quality growth companies

 

Seek to Exploit Three Market Inefficiencies

Management

Ward Sexton
Ward Sexton, CFA, Partner

Portfolio Manager

Tenure with William Blair:Since

1999
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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson, CFA, Partner

Portfolio Manager

Tenure with William Blair:Since

2006
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