For investors, today’s market presents a mix of challenges and opportunities. While economic uncertainty, shifting fiscal policies, and geopolitical risks dominate headlines, small-cap growth investors must take a measured approach...Read More Please find important disclosures here. Read more ›
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Essex’s Nancy Prial on CNBC: Tariffs, Volatility and Market Bottom
Essex's CO-CEO, Nancy Prial recently spoke with CNBC covering the topics of the impact of current and new proposed tariffs and the market volatility in the Small Cap space. To view the entire video, please click here. Please find important disclosures here. Read more ›
Essex GEOS Insights: The Scream
GEOS Insights: The Scream March 18, 2025 While our inclusion of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ could be an apt symbol for recent market volatility, the painting is more apropos for our assessments of recent power and electric utility conferences. Data centers and their utilities are screaming for more power. Now. And pricing is irrelevant – power demand from the... Read more ›
Essex’s Nancy Prial Featured on CNBC: Market Volatility and Small Caps
Essex's CO-CEO, Nancy Prial, was featured on CNBC this morning to discuss her thoughts on the recent market volatility and possible opportunities for picking small cap stocks in this current market. To view the entire video, please click here. Please find important disclosures here Read more ›
Essex’s Nancy Prial: The Boutique Advantage in Small Cap Portfolio Management
While boutique investment firms may not have the depth of resources available to their mammoth counterparts, they make more efficient use of those they do have and implement a dedicated focus to their strategies and client relationships. When it comes to managing small cap portfolios, many experienced institutional investors prefer the agility and specialized approach of smaller boutique firms for... Read more ›
Essex’s Nancy Prial: Seven Reasons to Invest in Micro Cap
Savvy investors have long understood the benefits of small cap stocks. They know that an allocation to a less efficient area of the market can improve the risk/return profile of a portfolio. The same and more can be said about micro caps. It is a highly inefficient market segment where large, widespread information gaps and security mispricing can be exploited... Read more ›
Essex’s Nancy Prial: Successfully Navigating the Path of Small Cap Growth Stocks
In the complex landscape of the investment world, small cap growth stocks have long been underfollowed, under-owned, and underappreciated. Their potential for high rewards can be obscured by perceptions of higher risk and instability. But astute investors, who possess superior insights into changing corporate fundamentals, may find a “silver lining” within this often overlooked and misunderstood asset class...Click Here to... Read more ›
Essex’s Nancy Prial: Thematic Insights in Small Cap Investing
Our best investment insights are driven by themes that are big, multi-year and actionable – they capture the necessary tailwinds of a favorable macro environment that will drive economic expansion as well as individual company growth and profitability. With years of practice, we have observed most of our themes to be long-lasting. Today our core themes are...Click Here to Read... Read more ›
Essex GEOS: Power Switch
Power Switch? DeepSeek, a Chinese AI upstart rocked the tech world last weekend with the introduction of an open-source large language model (LLM) exhibiting less compute intensity than the leading and legacy US LLM efforts such as OpenAI. The stocks of firms enabling current, and most importantly future data center development and LLM processing such as the graphics... Read more ›
Q4 2024 GEOS Review and Outlook
Essex Global Environmental Opportunities Strategy (GEOS) Fourth Quarter ended December 31, 2024 The Essex Global Environmental Opportunities Strategy (GEOS) was founded on our strong belief that the listed equity markets offer solutions to global environmental problems and companies with commercially viable solutions offer investors long-term investment opportunities. The last few years have been challenging for the clean technology sector as... Read more ›