U.S. Smid Cap Opportunity Separately Managed Account (SMA)


Inception Date Mar 01, 2022

Seeks long-term growth of capital

Investment Philosophy

The team seeks to invest in small and midcap companies that have become disconnected from their normalized valuations and have an identifiable catalyst for improvement. The smid cap strategy’s broad opportunity set promotes the potential for an attractive risk/return tradeoff and positions the team to capture the evolution of quality businesses as they grow.

  • Transitional Company Focus

    We seek to avoid the permanent impairment of capital and potentially generate long-term attractive investment returns across market cycles.

  • Catalyst-Driven Value

    The Strategy has the ability to invest across asset classes, regions, sectors/industries, market-capitalization ranges, and without regard to a benchmark.

  • Volatility Leads to Potential Opportunity

    The smid cap market may create attractive opportunities within security-level volatility due to short-and long-term dislocations in the market for disciplined active investors. It seeks to provide an enhanced risk/return trade-off by combining investment opportunities from both the small and midcap market segments.

Portfolio Management

  1. Disclosures

  2. First Eagle Separate Account Management, LLC (“FESAM”) relies on First Eagle Investment Management, LLC (“FEIM”) for numerous services and resources, and the investment teams of FESAM and FEIM work together to make investment decisions.

  3. This Portfolio is available only through a wrap fee or similar program sponsored by a third-party intermediary (“Sponsor”) that has engaged First Eagle Separate Account Management, LLC to manage certain of the Sponsor’s client accounts on a discretionary basis or to provide the Sponsor with recommendations in the form of model portfolio.

  4. Risk Disclosures

  5. The First Eagle U.S. Smid Cap Opportunity SMA Strategy (“Strategy”) is new and may not be successful under all future market conditions. The Strategy may not attract sufficient assets to achieve investment, trading or other efficiencies.

  6. All investments involve the risk of loss of principal.

  7. The value and liquidity of portfolio holdings may fluctuate in response to events specific to the companies or markets, as well as economic, political or social events in the United States or abroad. During periods of market volatility, the value of individual securities and other investments at times may decline significantly and rapidly. The securities of small and medium sized companies can be more volatile in price than those of larger companies and may be more difficult or expensive to trade.

  8. There are risks associated with investing in foreign investments (including depositary receipts). Foreign investments, which can be denominated in foreign currencies, are susceptible to less politically, economically and socially stable environments, fluctuations in the value of foreign currency and exchange rates, and adverse changes to government regulations.

  9. A principal risk of investing in value stocks is that the price of the security may not approach its anticipated value or may decline in value. “Value” investments, as a category, or entire industries or sectors associated with such investments, may lose favor with investors as compared to those that are more “growth” oriented.

  10. FEF Distributors, LLC (“FEFD”) (SIPC), a limited purpose broker-dealer, distributes certain First Eagle products. FEFD does not provide services to any investor, but rather provides services to its First Eagle affiliates. As such, when FEFD presents a fund, strategy, or other product to a prospective investor, FEFD and its representatives do not determine whether an investment in the fund, strategy or other product is in the best interests of, or is otherwise beneficial or suitable for, the investor. No statement by FEFD should be construed as a recommendation. Investors should exercise their own judgment and/or consult with a financial professional to determine whether it is advisable for the investor to invest in any First Eagle fund, strategy, or product.

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