mid caps

08 Oct 2019

Mid and small cap stocks - the place to be when negativity subsides

By Janice Roberts

The South African mid and small cap indices have underperformed the broader equity market to such an extent since December 2016 that they increasingly present an attractive potential investment opportunity. Even a small positive change in sentiment and or economic indicators will have a positive impact on the mid and small cap sector.

31 Jul 2019

The lost decade of the JSE: SA small- and mid-cap shares

By Janice Roberts

By Vanessa van Vuuren, portfolio manager at Sanlam Investments The small-cap premium – fact or fiction? Since Eugene Fama and Kenneth French first published their US-focussed research around the so-called “size” or “small-cap premium” in 1992, debate has ebbed and flowed around whether this premium does in fact exist. In theory, the notion of a...