Polar Capital Names Dan Boston Head of Global Small Company Team With New Fund Launching This Month

Polar Capital Names Dan Boston Head of Global Small Company Team With New Fund Launching This Month

• Boston brings nearly two decades of specialized experience to the firm as it continues to expand its US presence.
• International Small Company mutual fund to launch in September

Polar Capital (America) Corporation (Polar Capital), the specialist active asset management group, today announced the appointment of Dan Boston as Head of the Global Small Company team. He will also serve as the lead manager of a new mutual fund, the Polar Capital International Small Company Fund, which will launch later this month.

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Dan Boston, Head of Global Small Company Team at Polar Capital. (Photo: Business Wire)

Dan brings nearly two decades of investment experience to Polar Capital, including specialized expertise in international equities and growth investing. He joins from Brown Capital Management, where he led the $3.5 billion International Small Company strategy from 2019. Previously, he served as a Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at Baird and Head of International Equity and Senior Portfolio Manager at Ensign Peak Advisors. Dan began his career in 2005 as a global small-cap equity analyst at Wasatch Global Advisors. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University and the Yale School of Management, where he served as a research assistant to Nobel laureate Robert J. Schiller.

“Dan’s appointment further emphasizes our commitment to expanding our differentiated approach to investment management in the US,” said Gavin Rochussen, Chief Executive Officer of Polar Capital. “Dan brings a depth of portfolio management and specialized investing expertise and our new International Small Company Fund will allow him and his team to showcase their talents. This fund will complement the Polar Capital Emerging Market Stars Fund which launched in the US over three years ago and is Silver-rated by Morningstar as of June 28, 20241.”

“We are delighted to welcome Dan to Polar Capital and are confident investors will find his investment approach and track record a compelling investment opportunity for those looking for international diversification and alpha generation,” said Alastair Barrie, Polar Capital’s Managing Director, North America. “With an established and experienced team of four business development directors based locally and working across the US, we look forward to working with our clients and demonstrating Dan’s credentials to them.”

“Polar Capital has a track record of success and a unique opportunity to build its global small company franchise,” said Boston. “What differentiates Polar Capital is a passion for investing that permeates across the firm, investment autonomy among the individual teams that drives innovation and a robust operational structure that allows the investment teams to focus on portfolio management. Investors across the globe recognize Polar Capital for consistently delivering against these principles, and I am looking forward to playing a crucial role in further developing its offering for US investors.”

About Polar Capital

Polar Capital is a specialist, investment-led, active fund manager. With a collegiate and meritocratic culture where capacity of investment strategies is managed to enhance and protect performance. Since its foundation in 2001, it has grown steadily and now has 14 autonomous investment teams managing specialist, active and capacity constrained portfolios, with combined AuM of $29.7bn (as at June 30, 2024).

Polar Capital established its North America business, Polar Capital (America) Corporation, in 2019, with sales offices in the states of New York, Tennessee and Oregon, and fund management teams based in Connecticut, Florida and Georgia.

The Polar Capital Emerging Market Stars and Polar Capital Emerging Market ex-China Stars mutual funds are registered for sale in the US.

Polar Capital is principally located in London and also maintains offices in France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, the US, China and Singapore.

Polar Capital LLP is authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and registered as an investment adviser with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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