April 4, 2024
Company News

Ryan Dobratz, CFA, and Vic Cunningham, CFA, discuss what being named 2024 Best Equity Small Fund Family Group by LSEG Lipper means to Third Avenue.

0:00 – 1:47
What is it about your investment process that separates Third Avenue’s Funds from the rest of the funds in their peer group?

1:48 – 3:19
Ryan, it’s been a crazy market for the past few years, interest rates have skyrocketed and fell, what have you learned about your firm, strategy or just real estate market over that time period?

3:20 – 5:21
Cap Value & Real Estate asset classes are typically tied to the movement of interest rates.  Victor, what specific fundamentals were you and your team looking at during the past rate hiking period and what’s to come, what are you looking at next year as interest rates might start to decrease?

5:22 – 7:36
Where is that money not going now, what areas are we looking at as drivers for the Small-Cap Value and Real Estate classifications moving forward?

7:37 – 9:40
So much has been made of low cost index investing, there are obvious benefits there, what is the benefit of active investing, especially at Third Avenue, what is our firms value add?

9:41 – 13:02
What does a Lipper Fund Family Award for Best Equity Small Company Fund mean for our Firm, team or strategy itself?

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