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Hi, and welcome to The Longview. I'm Dan Lefkowitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes.

And I'm Christine Ben's director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar.

Our guest this week is J.B. Taylor. J.B. is CEO of Wasatch Global Investors based in Salt Lake City,

Utah, and specializing in small cap stocks. J.B. is also a portfolio manager on the Wasatch

Core Growth Fund, which receives

a Morningstar medalist rating of gold. He's a member of the firm's global research team, and he

serves on the firm's board of directors. J.B. joined Wasatch as an analyst in 1996 after graduating from

Stanford. J.B., thanks so much for joining us in the Longview. My pleasure to be here.

Well, let's start by talking about small caps as an asset class.

You've been in a small cap investor for a long time now, and Wasatch has really made small cap investing its specialty since its founding.

So maybe you can talk about why you find the asset class so rich with opportunity.

Sure. The reason we love small caps is not just

their size just because they're small. We love small caps because there are literally

thousands of companies in the small cap universe to pick and choose from as we're trying to

assemble a portfolio of what we think are the very best growth companies going forward. And it really

stems back to our founding. Our founder, Sam Stewart, founded the company back in 1975 here at the

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