Small Cap Growth

Philosophy

The management team for Fort Washington Investment Advisor's small cap growth strategy seeks to invest in small cap growth companies with an emphasis on improving fundamentals and quality. The team believes this approach provides the best opportunity to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns.

Process

The team's philosophy towards the small cap growth strategy is based on a disciplined bottom-up process emphasizing stock selection along with consideration of industry exposure. Their stock selection process uses proprietary quantitative ranking tools to provide a "bullpen" of ideas on the best small cap growth securities. Team specialists focus on companies with improving fundamentals that are favorably positioned to form sustainable competitive advantages within their industries. The target market cap range is $100 million to $2.5 billion.

Objective

Fort Washington Investment Advisors small cap growth strategy seeks to outperform its benchmark (the Russell 2000 Growth Index¹) over a full marketcycle by adding excess return while minimizing volatility through diversification and quality.

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