The KAR Small Cap Growth Fund has secured the #2 spot on Morningstar’s list of the Top 20 Small Cap Funds of the Decade.
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At KAR, we believe investing in small cap stocks offers unique opportunities outside the largest and most well-known companies. Because the small cap universe is both large and very diverse in quality, we believe active management is critical to investment outperformance as well as risk management. Our investment team focuses on the qualitative aspects of the companies in which we invest (e.g., durability of a company’s sustainable competitive advantage and management quality) rather than the pure quantitative outputs (e.g., specific targets for earnings or revenue), which we believe allows us to identify high quality companies with true competitive protections that will endure through a business cycle.
Learn more about our approach to small cap investing: KAR Strategies
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