The Fund will be distributed throughout Europe by La Fran\u00e7aise, an international asset
\nmanagement firm and a strategic development partner of Fred Alger Management.<\/p>\n
Amy Y. Zhang, CFA, Senior Vice President, of Fred Alger Management, Inc. (the sub-portfolio manager\/investment
\nadviser to Alger SICAV) is the portfolio manager of the Fund. Amy, who has 18 years of investment experience,
\njoined Alger in 2015 and also serves as portfolio manager of Alger\u2019s Small Cap Focus and Small Cap Growth
\nstrategies for U.S.-based investors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look to own fewer, higher-conviction names for a longer time period, which enables us to potentially drive \u201cWe are delighted to provide non-U.S. investors with access to Amy\u2019s expertise and proven track record of Amy is supported by a team of 30+ experienced analysts who perform original, bottom-up, fundamental research \u201cWe continue to diversify our product mix in order to meet non-U.S. investor demand. In 2014, we launched two Alger SICAV, a Luxembourg UCITS vehicle, makes the Fund available to non-U.S. investors in both U.S. dollardenominated Fred Alger Management, Inc., a leading asset management firm headquartered in New York City, announced the addition of the Alger Small Cap Focus Fund (the \u201cFund\u201d), a new Alger SICAV sub-fund, to its product line-up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":52268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1663,1655,1711,1437,1691,1952,1846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Amy is a specialist in small cap growth equities and believes in pursuing exceptional small companies that have
\nthe potential to become exceptional large companies. She constructs the Fund as a \u201cfocused\u201d<\/em> portfolio with
\ngenerally fewer than 50 high-conviction securities.<\/quote><\/p>\n
\nsuperior investment returns with lower turnover for our clients,\u201d<\/em> said Amy. \u201cIn addition, we are benchmark
\nagnostic, and we look to concentrate its holdings in high-growth sectors.\u201d
\n<\/em><\/p>\n
\ninvesting in U.S. small cap growth equities,\u201d<\/em> said Dan Chung, CEO and Chief Investment Officer. \u201cAn important
\nbyproduct of focused portfolios is high active share, which we believe is appealing to investors. As we have learned
\nfirsthand through our Paris-based partner, La Fran\u00e7aise, there is significant demand by non-U.S. investors for these
\ntypes of actively managed strategies, especially in the small cap space, and Alger helps fill that void with this
\nFund.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nto find high-conviction opportunities in small cap equities. Alger\u2019s entire investment team follows the firm\u2019s
\nphilosophy of investing in companies experiencing \u2018Positive Dynamic Change,\u2019 which has been the firm\u2019s
\ninvestment philosophy for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n
\nnew sub-funds\u2014Alger Emerging Markets Fund and Alger Dynamic Opportunities Fund (a long\/short fund). This
\nyear, we launched euro-denominated share classes for investors in Eurozone countries,\u201d<\/em> added Dan.<\/p>\n
\nand hedged euro-denominated classes. Alger has partnered with La Fran\u00e7aise to distribute Alger
\nSICAV sub-funds throughout continental Europe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"