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Mutual Fund Q&A: 
In Quest of Core and Catalysts
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Last Update: 9:23 AM EST January 29 2008


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Ryan Crane
  “Our goal is to evolve a strategy that will enable us to invest in really great growth companies, like the 10-fold return type of investments, for our small cap and mid cap growth fund portfolios.”
Stephens Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Stephens Small-Cap Growth Fund

Identifying high return companies in the relatively volatile small-cap and mid-cap space requires considerable experience and expertise. Ryan Crane, portfolio manager of the Stephens Mid Cap Growth Fund and the Stephens Small Cap Growth Fund, and his research team employ a judicious combination of fundamental and quantitative analyses in their unique dual-approach strategy to make money from growth investments for their two funds.

 
Basically, we mitigate risk through indepth fundamental research. We have someone focusing on these issues, sectors and themes and constantly monitoring them, and again identifying the quantitative metrics wherever possible, that can help us confirm the status of these themes.

Ultimately, we believe that our diversified approach and the combination of core and catalyst mitigates a lot of the market risk. When things slow down we have this basket of core companies that are very stable and that stability shows up in the portfolio. Therefore, by design, in strong up markets the portfolio performs well due to the catalyst companies and overall valuation expansion, and in down markets, our core growth positions tend to be less economically sensitive and provide some downside protection. Over longer periods of time, we believe this combination offers the best of both worlds.
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