Ashford Financial Group’s Portfolio Manager Masami Toyama Celebrates Five Years on Discovery Fund

Feb. 2, 2012 - PRLog -- Ashford Financial Group (AFG) announced that today marks the fifth anniversary of  Mr. Masami Toyama as Ashford Financial Group’s Discovery Fund portfolio manager, a $1.1 billion fund (as of 30/6/11), that seeks to invest in high quality, small-cap companies with above average earnings growth and seasoned management teams.
Under Toyama’s leadership and in combination with an experienced group of analysts, Ashford Financial Group Discovery Fund has delivered strong results and was ranked 77th out of 663 funds in the category, based on total return. 1 What makes these results even more impressive is that the Fund has delivered strong returns with low relative risk. 2 Past performance, however, does not guarantee future results.
“Masami is a talented manager with a distinguished, long-term track record,” said Arthur Henderson, Chief Executive Officer for Ashford Financial Group.  “During his five years at Ashford Financial Group, Masami and his team have delivered strong results with a focused approach to high quality small-cap investing.  His leadership, commitment, and discipline have been invaluable to the Growth Team.”
Masami uses thorough bottom-up fundamental research to help identify dynamic companies whose potential for above-average, sustainable revenue and earnings growth may position them to outperform.  “We aim to create a sustainable competitive advantage by specializing in companies that are predisposed to outperform the small cap universe because of their high quality, high growth profile,” Masami says.
Masami has a long history of investment excellence in the small-cap growth space.  He has been using the same investment process for over ten years and has delivered strong results in both up markets and down markets.

About Ashford Financial Group (AFG)
Ashford Financial Group is an independent investment management firm based in Tokyo. Since we were founded in 1994, Ashford Financial Group has focused on providing our Institutional and Retail Clients with specialist investment research and advisory services directed by our innovative investment strategies and undertaken by our immensely talented and experienced team.

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Ashford Financial Group is an independent investment management firm based in Tokyo founded in 1994. Ashford Financial Group has focused on providing our Institutional and Retail Clients with specialist investment research and advisory services.