The Small Cap Value strategy seeks to generate consistent, long-term investment performance in excess to the Russell 2000 Value Index
Primary Benchmark:
Russell 2000 Value Index
Strategy Highlights
- The investment universe includes all stocks generally within the market cap range of the benchmark at initial purchase
- We believe that known and recurring inefficiencies are available in the small cap market causing stock prices to deviate from their intrinsic value
- These inefficiencies can be categorized into three areas: misunderstood franchises, underfollowed and special situations
- A repeatable investment process can uncover higher quality businesses that are trading at a discount to intrinsic value utilizing rigorous fundamental research
- Disciplined bottom-up portfolio construction within a risk aware framework
- Sector guidelines: typical range is +/- 50% for benchmark sectors over 10%
- Individual security exposure: typical position range is 0.3% to 1.2% with a maximum weight of 2.5%
- Typically 100 to 130 stocks; turnover: 20% to 40% annually
The Small Cap Value Composite includes all discretionary accounts with market values greater than $1 million managed by Loomis Sayles that seek to identify attractively-valued, small-sized companies with the potential for above average capital appreciation. The strategy objective is to generate consistent, long-term investment performance over a full market cycle superior to the Russell 2000 Value Index, and generally within the market capitalization range of the Index. As of 1/1/2021 the Composite was redefined to include commingled vehicles, previously only separate accounts were included. The Composite inception date is April 1, 1992. The Composite was created in 1993.