Boutique Firm Specializing in Small & Mid Cap Growth Strategies
Stephens Investment Management Group specializes in small- and mid-cap growth investing, using a disciplined process to identify and capitalize on transformative change. We partner with institutions and consultants to provide access to a stable, high-conviction team focused on capturing mispriced change for long-term capital appreciation. We believe market inefficiencies in the small- and mid-cap space offer active managers a durable opportunity to outperform across market cycles.
Our Philosophy
Our investment philosophy is based on the belief that earnings growth drives stock performance. We believe that the inefficiencies in the small and mid cap markets create opportunities for active managers to outperform over a given market cycle.
Our
Process
We utilize a team approach to investment decisions. Paramount to our success is the disciplined execution of our investment process that is well-defined, represents sound investment principals, has objective and subjective components, and is repeatable.
Portfolio Construction
Our bottom-up portfolio construction process yields a blend of Core Growth and Earnings Catalyst stocks to position the portfolio for varying market conditions.
Behavioral Finance
Overconfidence, Anchoring, Confirmation Bias, Insufficient Adjustment.
Wall Street chronically underestimates the magnitude and duration of change.
"What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact".
~ Warren Buffet
Why SIMG?
- Our People – Our investment process involves all members of the investment team. This enables vigorous debate and sharing of information while eliminating the promotion of a single sector or industry.
- Behavioral Finance – We are very cognizant of the behavioral biases inherently found in investing and seek to avoid the same traps we are trying to exploit.
- Portfolio Construction – We incorporate core growth¹ and earnings catalyst¹ stocks, seeking to position the portfolio for varying market conditions. Our use of thematic concentration allows for a concentrated focus within a diversified portfolio.
- Transparency and Availability – We believe we have very open and transparent client relationships. Our portfolio management team has direct relationships with our clients.
- Small and Mid-Cap Focus – SIMG is focused on small and mid capitalization growth investing. Our resources are focused on these small portions of the asset allocation spectrum. There are no other teams competing for resources.
- Organizational Stability – We have the scale and scope of a larger firm, while maintaining our boutique culture. The size of our products and firm allows us to remain nimble and dynamic in an ever changing investment landscape.
- Invested Alongside Our Clients – The investment team at SIMG participates in the company’s success through phantom equity and has a considerable portion of their collective net-worth in the firm’s products. We believe in ourselves.
¹SIMG’s “Core Growth”, “Earnings Catalyst” and “Hybrid” categories are based on internal proprietary methods of analyzing companies and labeling these companies as it applies to our portfolio construction process. This is an internal, subjective process.
Our Investment Management Team
We bring a collaborative, team-based approach to investment management. Focused on small and mid cap growth, we rigorously research investments, seek clear catalysts, and stay true to our strategy—giving you confidence in our process and results.
