Global investment manager, Standard Life Investments, today celebrates the ‘Outstanding Investor' accolade given to its Head of Smaller Companies, Harry Nimmo, at last night's Morningstar OBSR Honours Dinner.
Harry, who joined Standard Life Investments in 1985 and was appointed as Head of Smaller Companies in 1993, has managed the £997m1 UK Smaller Companies OEIC since its inception in 1997 in addition to managing the £166m1 UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust mandate since 2003.
Building on this success, Standard Life Investments launched the Global Smaller Companies Fund in January this year. Co-managed by Harry Nimmo and Alan Rowsell, the Fund has already delivered top-decile performance this year returning 6.6% versus the IMA global sector of - 0.25%2.
Standard Life Investments' suite of Smaller Companies Funds has delivered an exceptional track record of outperformance. The success has been generated by the team focusing on investing in the shares of smaller companies that are under-researched and not fully recognised by the market. The team are very much led by stock selection, seeking to identify improving situations and to invest in smaller companies both in the UK and globally where they see potential for substantial rewards over the long term.
Jacqueline Lowe, Head of UK Wholesale, Standard Life Investments, said;
"We are delighted that Harry has been recognised so publicly and in such a prestigious forum. Harry has a dedicated team behind him with extensive small cap expertise and they have produced consistently strong returns to investors over the long term. Core to the Focus on Change investment process we operate at Standard Life Investments is the team ethos adopted by all of our fund managers. All of these attributes have contributed towards Harry achieving this outstanding success and we congratulate him on it."
Standard Life Investments UK Smaller Companies OEIC has returned 562%3 to investors since launch and has produced top quartile performance over ten years4. Performance of the Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust has also been very strong, producing top decile performance since Harry took over the Trust in 2003. The Smaller Companies OEIC has a Gold rating from leading rating agency Morningstar-OBSR and a Platinum rating from Standard & Poor's.
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