Market Insights from Allan Jacobs

Allan Jacobs

Senior Portfolio Manager, Director of Small Cap Investments

Allan Jacobs joined SAM in August 2007 as a Director of Small Cap Investments with focus on the Sprott Small Cap Funds. Prior to joining SAM , Allan was head of Canadian Small Cap equities at Sceptre Investment Counsel, a field he has specialized in for the past 20 years. He was also the Portfolio Manager of the Sceptre Equity Growth Fund, as well as Portfolio Manager of the Sceptre Canadian Equity Small Cap Pooled Fund and the Canadian small cap component of all other institutional portfolios. He managed the Sceptre Small Cap Opportunities Fund (a hedge fund), which was launched on January 31, 2007 (now called the Sprott Small Cap Hedge Fund).  He was an integral part of the Canadian Equity team at Sceptre since 1993 and was appointed a Managing Director of Sceptre in 1996.

Allan was acknowledged for his achievements at Sceptre on several occasions. The Sceptre Equity Growth Fund was awarded the Best Canadian Small Cap Fund over one-, three-, five- and ten-year periods at the 2007 Canadian Lipper Fund Awards. The Sceptre Equity Growth Fund was also a finalist for the 2006 Small Capitalization Equity Fund of the Year and was chosen Canadian Equity Fund of the Year in 2005. Furthermore, Allan was chosen the 2006 Fund Manager of the Year at the Canadian Investment Awards. The Small Capitalization Canadian Equity Pooled Fund, also managed by Allan, was awarded Canadian Small Cap Pooled Fund of the Year. 

The experience he brought to Sceptre in 1993 included his management of the largest equity fund in South Africa (a $5 billion fund for Old Mutual) and his four years at Canada Life Investment Management Limited as the portfolio manager of Small Cap Canadian equities.