High-Conviction Alger Capital Appreciation Focus Strategy Achieves Five-Year Record
NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 12, 2018 -- Fred Alger Management, Inc. (“Alger”) is pleased to announce the Alger Capital Appreciation Focus Strategy (the “Strategy”) achieved its five-year performance record at the end of 2017. The Strategy is a focused portfolio of approximately 50 high-conviction, large capitalization stocks managed by Patrick Kelly, CFA, and Dr. Ankur Crawford.
“As a focused version of our Capital Appreciation strategy, we invest in fewer, but larger positions of our best ideas,” said Mr. Kelly. “We create a portfolio of our highest conviction ideas utilizing in-depth research from Alger’s analyst team. We are quite pleased the Strategy achieved this milestone and believe its long-term performance is a testament to our people, process, and philosophy.”
The Strategy has outperformed its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Growth Index, from inception five years ago through 12/31/17. The Strategy also outperformed its benchmark in 2017 by 380 basis points. The Strategy returned 34.0% on a 1-year basis, 13.5% on a 3-year basis, and 18.0% on a five-year basis net of fees as of the end of 2017.
Additionally, the Strategy had very strong risk and return statistics versus its peers in the eVestment U.S. Large Cap Growth Equity universe, as demonstrated by its ranking in the top quintile for Returns (15), Information Ratio (14), Batting Average (6), and Upside Market Capture (9) for the five-year period ended 12/31/17 out of 302 strategies.
“We believe investors seeking strong long-term return potential should align themselves with active managers with proven investment philosophies and processes,” said Dan Chung, CEO and CIO of Alger. “The rigorous, bottom-up research process employed by our investment team enables the portfolio managers across all of our focused strategies to have confidence when constructing a portfolio with fewer holdings.”
Alger has expanded its suite of focused portfolios over the past five years. Alger affiliate Weatherbie Capital manages Weatherbie Specialized Growth, a high-conviction, focused portfolio of smaller capitalization growth equities with a 20+ year track record of strong long-term performance. Additionally, in April 2018, Amy Zhang, CFA, will mark her third year managing the Alger Small Cap Focus strategy, which outperformed its benchmark by more than 250 basis points on a net of fees basis as of the end of 2017.
“There continues to be significant interest in focused strategies that are meaningfully differentiated from passive index strategies and peers,” said Jim Tambone, Executive Vice President, Chief Distribution Officer. “We are fortunate to have been entrusted with more than $2 billion of client assets in our focus strategies.”
New, Lower Fee Structure
Alger has lowered the fees for institutional clients in separately managed accounts as of January 1, 2018. Under this new fee schedule, fees for Alger Capital Appreciation Focus strategy are 0.55% on the first $50 million of assets under management and 0.40% on assets surpassing $50 million.
Alger also lowered the management fee on the Alger Capital Appreciation Focus Fund from 55 basis points to 52 basis points. The Fund is available in an institutional share class (no load Z share) or Class Y shares, which are generally available to qualified and non-qualified retirement plans and do not have distribution or shareholder service fees.
Furthermore, the Fund’s voluntary total expense ratio has been lowered for Class Z shares (to 68 basis points) and for Class Y shares (to 65 basis points).
“The combination of the Strategy achieving its five-year record, its strong relative performance, and an even more attractive fee schedule makes this Strategy a compelling large cap option for investors,” said Tambone.
Portfolio Manager Biographies
Patrick Kelly, CFA
Mr. Kelly, an 18-year veteran of the firm, began his career at Alger as a Research Associate and completed Alger’s in-house analyst training program. In September of 2001 Mr. Kelly was promoted to Senior Analyst, responsible for the Technology sector. Mr. Kelly was named portfolio manager of the Alger Capital Appreciation and Alger Spectra strategies in September 2004, and was named as head of the strategies in 2015.
Dr. Ankur Crawford
Dr. Crawford joined Alger in 2004 and completed the Firm’s in-house training program. Dr. Crawford was named portfolio manager of the Alger Mid Cap Growth strategy in 2010 and named portfolio manager on the Capital Appreciation Focus strategy in 2015. Additionally, she was Head of the Technology sector team from January 2013 – April 2016. Dr. Crawford is also portfolio manager of the Alger Capital Appreciation, Alger Spectra, and Alger 25 strategies.
About Alger
Founded in 1964, Alger is widely recognized as a pioneer of growth-style investment management. Headquartered in New York City with affiliate offices in Boston and London, Alger provides U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors and financial advisors access to a suite of growth equity separate accounts, mutual funds, and privately offered investment vehicles. The firm’s investment philosophy, discovering companies undergoing Positive Dynamic Change, has been in place for over 50 years. In March 2017, Weatherbie Capital, LLC, a Boston-based investment adviser specializing in small and mid cap growth equity investing, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alger. For more information, please visit http://www.alger.com.
Past performance is not an indication or guarantee of future results. A complete list and description of Fred Alger Management, Inc. composites and performance results is available upon request: 800.223.3810 or http://www.alger.com.
Risk Disclosures: Investing in the stock market involves gains and losses and may not be suitable for all investors. Growth stocks tend to be more volatile than other stocks as the prices of growth stocks tend to be higher in relation to their companies’ earnings and may be more sensitive to market, political, and economic developments. Investing in companies of all capitalizations involves the risk that smaller, newer issuers may have limited product lines or financial resources, or lack of management depth.
Alger Capital Appreciation Focus Fund, Class Z, returned 34.10% on a 1-year basis, 13.41% on a 3-year basis, and 17.82% on a five-year basis; and Class Y, returned 23.10% on a 1-year basis, as of the end of 2017.
The performance data quoted represents past performance, which is not an indication or a guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. For performance current to the most recent month end, visit http://www.alger.com or call 800.992.3863.
Effective January 1, 2018, Fred Alger Management, Inc. has contractually agreed to reimburse Fund expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage, and extraordinary expenses) through February 28, 2019 to the extent necessary to limit the total annual Fund operating expenses of Class Y to 0.65% and Class Z to 0.68% of the class’ average daily net assets. During the period prior to January 1, 2018, the total annual Fund operating expenses for Class Z had been limited to 0.95%. This Agreement may only be amended or terminated prior to its expiration date by agreement between FAM and Fund’s Board of Trustees, and will terminate automatically in the event of termination of the Investment Advisory Agreement. Fred Alger Management, Inc. may, during the one-year term of the expense reimbursement contract, recoup any expenses waived or reimbursed pursuant to the expense reimbursement contract to the extent that such recoupment would not cause the expense ratio to exceed the lesser of the stated limitation in effect at the time of (i) the waiver or reimbursement and (ii) the recoupment.
Before investing, carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. For a prospectus or summary prospectus containing this and other information about the Fund, call (800) 992-3863, visit http://www.alger.com, or consult your financial advisor. Read it carefully before investing.
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Scott A. Anderson, Alger, http://www.alger.com, +1 (212) 806-2972, [email protected]
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