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In Search of Small Wonders

Kempton Ingersol’s job is considerably more fun than the average portfolio manager. Ingersol, who is the managing director and senior portfolio manager at Brown Capital Management (No. 13 on the be asset managers list with $1.2 billion in assets), is charged with identifying investment-worthy small-cap companies whose innovative technologies or groundbreaking business models show big promise. Small-cap firms are those whose outstanding shares are valued between $250 million and $1 billion.

Invest in Hot TIPS

Perhaps you’ve noticed that the investment landscape has been long on turbulence and short on stability recently. It’s in times like these that investors often seek out shelter in sound, conservative investments such as TIPS, or Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, U.S. government bonds that go up and down in value to keep pace with inflation. Peace of mind has been a luxury of late.

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