Gervais Williams is one of Britain’s best known fund managers and perhaps the industry’s biggest advocate of investing in smaller companies. His strong performance record in recent years is in part down to a focus on buying good quality small-caps at cheap prices and strong yields.
Gervais is managing director of fund management group Miton where he manages a number of funds that together total more than £1 billion. His 30 year career in the City included 17 years at Gartmore before making the move to Miton. Among other industry positions, he is also on the EU Taskforce reviewing why the number of smaller IPOs has declined over recent decades.
Gervais has written books including Slow Finance and The Future is Small, where he bangs the drum for resisting the lure of glamorous, often expensive growth shares in favour of value and income opportunities at the smaller end of the market.
With all this in mind, Gervais was a top target for my interview series with some of the country’s most influential investors. So I’m taking him out for lunch to find out precisely what makes his investing strategy tick and why he thinks smaller companies offer some of the greatest opportunities.
If you have any questions you’d like me to ask him, please feel free to let me know in the comments below. The normal caveats apply (I might not be able to ask everything and delays to these interviews can happen!).
