BT small caps fund gets tick from van Eyk
BT’sAustralian Small Companies Fund has been rated favourably byvan Eyk, which has drawn attention to the presence of the small caps specialists at the helm in Ben Griffiths and Brian Eley, who both defected from the small caps team atING.
Van Eyk has awarded the fund an ‘A’ rating to BT, which is the 13th small cap manager to be rated by the research house. Van Eyk praised the transparency and rigourousness of the small caps team’s stock selection process as well as the personnel and lack of capacity constraints.
“The strong and focused process in the small cap area, solid people and no current limits on capacity relative to peers are the major reasons behind our recommendation of the BT Small Cap fund,” van Eyk associate director Dragana Timotijevic says.
Eley, currently BT’s small companies portfolio manager, impressed that the first rating is positive says that “it is great to be off to a flying start”. Meanwhile, Griffiths, who is joint portfolio manager predicts the fund will deliver on the confidence van Eyk has shown in it.
This is the first rating of the fund since it was launched at the beginning of March.
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