Rupert Rucker of Schroders: ‘Small and mid-cap US stocks have been ignored for years and are at good prices’
The British Wall Street expert is optimistic, saying that ‘for the US economy, there’s nothing to really stop the current momentum’
Rupert Rucker (United Kingdom, 57 years old) has an unusual background for an investment director, the role he plays at asset manager Schroders, where he oversees U.S. small and mid-cap equities. Having graduated with a degree in classical philology and served as an officer in the British army for nearly four years, he now resides in London, where he runs a fund that invests in small and mid-cap U.S. companies, as well as two others that focus on impact investing. “Understanding ancient history and Latin is a combination of really trying to work out what happened on the basis of very little information, from either inscriptions or papyrus,” he says. That’s not so very different from interpreting financial markets, he says on a brief, 24-hour visit to Spain he made on the way to Italy.
