2012 SMA Managers of the Year

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  2012 SMA Fixed Income Award: Gannett Welsh & Kotler LLC

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 25, 2012

  Predictions of mass default, European sovereign debt, outlooks from Bill Gross, Bernanke’s shenanigans—anyone still think fixed income isn’t “sexy?”

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  2012 SMA International Equity Manager of the Year, No. 2: Cambiar Investors LLC

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 20, 2012

  “You don’t have to find every single great stock out there,” says Jennifer Dunne, the firm’s international portfolio manager and senior analyst. “But if you put one in the portfolio, it better go up.”

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  2012 Small-Cap Equity SMA Manager of the Year: Kayne Anderson Rudnick

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 11, 2012

  ‘Research is our lifeblood,’ says Jon Christensen, who manages the small- and mid-cap portfolios, and that has helped the firm weather the rocky ride in the small-cap space.

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  2012 Mid-Cap SMA Manager of the Year: Geneva Capital Management

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 9, 2012

  Geneva likes mid-cap companies, says principal and portfolio manager Michelle Picard, because they’re past the volatile, entrepreneurial small-cap stage and management is focused, yet they haven’t reached the large-cap space where growth is harder to achieve.

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  2012 Large-Cap SMA Manager of the Year Co-Winner: Santa Barbara Asset Management

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 5, 2012

  Santa Barbara's Jim Boothe says he looks for “clean balance sheets, very strong cash flow and a commitment to dividends.”

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  How the Best Money Managers Exploit Market Inefficiencies

  By J. Gibson Watson III, CIMA, Envestnet  |  April 4, 2012

  Several winners of this year’s SMA Managers of the Year highlight the different ways that managers with a strong alpha thesis add value to a portfolio.

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  2012 SMA Managers of the Year: How We Picked Them

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 2, 2012

  An obvious and oft-asked question after announcing the SMA Managers of the Year is how, exactly, they were chosen? Here's how it works.

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  2012 Large-Cap SMA Manager of the Year Co-Winner: BRC Investment Management

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 2, 2012

  BRC Investment Management's Large-Cap Concentrated Equity Portfolio is one of two large-cap SMA portfolios honored as a 2012 Separately Managed Account Manager of the Year.

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  2012 SMA Managers of the Year: Calm, Cool and Confident

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  March 26, 2012

  The one thing seen among all of these winners? “Dividend yield,” says Gib Watson, president and CEO of Prima Capital, IA's longtime partner in choosing the annual Separately Managed Account Managers of the Year.