Every investor’s dream is to get in on the ground floor of the next Apple or Google well before such companies become huge success stories and their stocks soar in value. While the rewards can be great, the odds of success are usually low. We take a look at just how difficult it can be.

Has the long awaited shift to quality finally arrived?

Frank Gannon discusses current conditions in the small-cap environment and potential shifts for 2013

Principal and Assistant Portfolio Manager Francis “Frank” Gannon provides thoughts regarding the economy, the markets and small-cap investing. Frank, a former panelist on Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street, has 19 years of investment management experience and joined our team in 2006.

This paper describes the current state of European small-cap and mid-cap (SMID) indexing and introduces the innovative approach the Russell Europe SMID 300 Index takes towards constituent selection.

This Fund aims to achieve capital growth by investing primarily in UK smaller companies, including the mid cap, AIM and small cap market segments.

This report for Centric Commercial Finance was produced by the Centre of Economics and Business Research (CEBR). It considers the role that asset-based lending, including invoice discounting, can play in ensuring the stability of many of the UK’s SMEs.

Finance is the life blood of starting and growing a business. We look at whether banks’ attitudes towards lending have changed and if government initiatives will make a difference.