In the past five years, the fund has beaten over 95% of its peers and won awards for outperformance.
The portfolio manager shares the strategy that s helped him as well as three top stock picks.
To be a leading European stock picker, is it essential that you live in Europe? Not necessarily.
Stephen Kusmierczak is based in Chicago, and over the past year his small-cap and mid-cap Columbia Acorn European Fund returned 71% to investors, while also making it onto Insider s 2020 list of top European fund managers.
In the longer term, the fund earned a 2021 Lipper Fund Award for outperformance over a five-year period relative to peers, and, according to Morningstar, Kusmierczak crushed 95% of his peers over the past five years.