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...To get a sense of just how unusual this is, note that in the past, during US bull markets in which large caps outperformed, small caps did not suffer....
...The benchmark large-cap CSI 300 lost 11.4 per cent last year....
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...It expresses positive views about large caps and negative ones about small caps....
...A market cap below €3bn also put off some big fund managers as an investment in Douglas would be too small to move the needle on their portfolios....
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...It’s not clear, but Wigg has three main ideas: The quality of small cap companies has declined, with lower growth, weaker profits and more fragile balance sheets....
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