Allianz RCM Europe Small Cap Equity

The Fund offers investors the opportunity to invest in the most promising smaller companies in Europe, which are currently attractively valued in relative terms and offer higher growth potential. 

These stocks tend to benefit in particular from an economic recovery, in a market environment where fundamental stock selection is set to become even more important.

Frank Hansen, Senior Portfolio Manager, leads the highly experienced European Small Caps team of four, which is based in both London and Frankfurt and has a total of more than 50 years investment experience. 

The team is directly supported by 37 research analysts based in Europe, and makes full use of Grassroots(SM) Research to add additional conviction to investment decisions when selecting stocks.

The investment process is driven entirely by bottom-up stock-picking and attaches great importance to meeting company management regularly, with the team meeting the management of more than 900 small and medium capitalised companies directly each year around Europe (excluding Turkey and Russia). 

Great importance is also attached to diversification within the portfolio, with a well-established risk-management process embedded within the overall investment process.

The team has generated a long track record of long-term outperformance for more than 10 years and enjoys a strong position within the peer group within Europe.

The Fund holds a gold Morningstar OBSR Analyst Rating(TM), as at October 2011.