Columbia Wanger Offshore Funds

Effective 23 March 2012, the Wanger US Smaller Companies UCITS Fund and the Wanger European Smaller Companies UCITS Fund, managed by Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC, began trading as sub-funds on the MontLake UCITS Platform plc following the merger of the Wanger Investment Company into the MontLake structure.

For more information about the funds, please visit http://www.montlakeucits.com.

Market Insights

Perspectives

Colin Moore, AIIMR, Chief Investment Officer |
May 14, 2012

Special points of interest:

  • Searching for Big Foot
  • The message is becoming clear
  • A surplus!
  • Money Market funds

Perspectives

Special Perspectives

Colin Moore, AIIMR, Chief Investment Officer |
May 1, 2012

Special points of interest:

  • Impact of the French election

Special Perspectives

Investment Strategy Outlook

Colin Moore, CIO
Anwiti Bahuguna, Ph.D.
Marie M. Schofield, CFA

This report offers perspective from the Columbia Management Asset Allocation Team. The team meets each quarter to review U.S. and global economic conditions and markets. The Investment Strategy Outlook represents our consensus opinion on the relative attractiveness of equities, fixed-income and alternative investments within various sectors, investment styles, markets and countries.

Investment Strategy Outlook Q2 2012


Squirrel Chatter II

Charles P. McQuaid, Chief Investment Officer, Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC | Fourth Quarter, 2011

Vaccines: Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

In his fourth quarter Squirrel Chatter II essay, Chuck McQuaid looks at the history of vaccines and the powerful impact they have had on our lives in the 20th century.

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