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Oct 2011 Interview With Prominent Smallcap Fund Manager Steven Palmer of AlphaNorth Asset Management - Oct 21, 2011
SmallCapPower (SCP): What is your take on the recent volatility in the stock markets during the last 3 months? What do you attribute that to? Steve Palmer: The equity market has been largely focused on Europe over the past few months. Not much else has mattered. Once there is a ring fence around the European situation, attention will shift to the how cheap equities are. SCP: In your last interview with us in late August, you were optimistic about the prospect for the markets and even said th Read more...
August 2011 Interview With Prominent Smallcap Fund Manager Steven Palmer - Aug 26, 2011
SmallCapPower (SCP): After experience a bout of euphoria during the first 4 months of the year, the markets are experiencing one of the worst routs. What do you attribute this despair to? Steve Palmer: There are lots of debt problems around the world and people are worried that the current economic slowdown will turn into another recession. This is surprising even though an economic slowdown at this stage of the recovery would be typical. I wouldn’t call the recent market activity &ldqu Read more...
May 2011 Interview With Prominent Smallcap Fund Manager Steven Palmer - May 31, 2011
SmallCapPower (SCP): Canada just elected a majority government after a long 7 years of minority governments. How do you think this will impact the Canadian economy and capital markets? Steve Palmer: The majority government will result in a stable political climate which is good for equities. SCP: AlphaNorth is planning to launch a new mutual fund. Tell us a little about that. Who is the target investor audience for that? Steve Palmer: We have filed a preliminary prospectus for a new mutual fu Read more...
April 2011 Interview With Prominent Smallcap Fund Manager Steven Palmer - Apr 29, 2011
In his monthly interview series with SmallCapPower.com, prominent hedge fund manager Steve Palmer discusses his outlook on the market, the sectors that he favours and companies he finds interesting. SCP: How is the year 2011 going so far for in your opinion for the stock markets, especially for listed small cap companies? Steve Palmer: It has been a tough year so far for most small cap funds as the TSX Venture Index has experienced negative returns year to date. This should not be surprising g Read more...
February 2011 Interview With Prominent Smallcap Fund Manager Steven Palmer - Feb 01, 2011
In his monthly interview series with SmallCapPower.com, prominent hedge fund manager Steve Palmer discusses his outlook on the market, the sectors that he favours and companies he finds interesting. SCP: You ended the year 2010 very strongly with the AlphaNorth Partners Fund gaining 113.6% for the year. Tell us briefly what worked so well for you and how did you manage to notch such strong performance? Steve Palmer: We had a great year. We were fortunate that a lot of factors when our way in Read more...
December 2010 Interview With Prominent Smallcap Fund Manager Steven Palmer - Dec 22, 2010
In his monthly interview series with SmallCapPower.com, prominent hedge fund manager  Mr. Palmer discusses his outlook on the market, sectors that he favours and companies he finds interesting. SCP: In your last interview, you mentioned that December is generally a good month for small cap stocks and so far small cap stocks, especially the junior resource stocks have performed well. You also thought that junior resource stocks will likely do well in the coming months. As the year comes to an en Read more...
Nov 2010 Interview with prominent smallcap fund manager Mr. Steven Palmer - Nov 26, 2010
In his monthly interview series with SmallCapPower.com, prominent hedge fund manager  Mr. Steven Palmer discusses his outlook on the market, sectors that he favours and companies he finds interesting. You can view the previous Video Interview with Mr. Palmer here. SCP: In your last interview, you talked about investors’ bearish sentiments causing the turmoil during summer months. You also felt that institutional investors would come back to the markets as they have sat on the fences for Read more...
Interview with promient fund Manager Mr. Steven Palmer - Oct 20, 2010
In his monthly interview series with SmallCapPower.com, prominent hedge fund manager Mr. Steven Palmer discusses his outlook on the market, sectors that he favours and companies he finds interesting. You can view the previous Video Interview with Mr. Palmer here. SCP: In your last interview, you talked about your market outlook and sectors that you prefer. You also rightly commented that stock markets will do well during the remainder of the year and after we spoke to you, so far, markets ar Read more...
SmallcapPower.com interview with Mr.Steven Palmer of AlphaNorth Asset Management - Sep 14, 2010
SmallCapPower.com interview with Mr. Steven Palmer of AlphaNorth Asset Management. In your last interview, you talked about your fund and your investment methodology. You also commented on the market conditions and how you go about looking for good investment opportunity. We would like to ask you a few questions to continue the conversation in our monthly series- “Steve Palmer Interviews with SmallCapPower.com”. SCP: With summer coming to an end and people back to work, do you thin Read more...
Prominent hedge fund manager Steven Palmer discusses the market, gold and his recent successes - Aug 24, 2010
View the SmallCapPower CEO Interview with prominent small cap hedge fund manager Steven Palmer of AlphaNorth Asset Management. Mr Palmer discusses his views on markets, gold, and shares some of his recent successes in small cap investing. Read more...

About Steven Palmer

CFA, President & CEO, AlphaNorth Asset Management

Steven is a founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer. He began his career in the investment industry in 1995. Prior to founding AlphaNorth in 2007, from July 1998 to August 2007 he was employed at one of the world's largest financial institutions as Vice President - Canadian Equities where he managed the Canadian equity assets of approximately $350 million. Steven managed a pooled fund which focussed on Canadian small capitalization companies from its inception to August 2007 achieving returns that were ranked #1 in performance by a major fund ranking service in their small cap pooled fund category (35.8% over 9 years as compared to 10.0% for S&P/TSX Composite Index and 13.0% for the BMO Weighted Small Cap Total Return Index) over the same period. He also managed a large cap fund which ranked in the first quartile of performance among other Canadian equity pooled funds for the following time periods: 1 year, 2 year, 3 year, 4 year, 5 year and 10 year.

Prior to this, from September 1997 to July 1998 Steven was employed as a Portfolio Manager at a high net worth investment boutique. Mr. Palmer started his career in January 1995 as a Research Associate and progressed to Research Analyst. Steven earned a BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

About Alpha North Asset Management

Founded in 2007, AlphaNorth Asset Management ("AlphaNorth") is a Toronto based investment manager. AlphaNorth believes that superior long term equity returns are achievable by exploiting inefficiencies in the Canadian small cap universe through careful security selection on both a long and short basis. The firm combines technical analysis with both a bottom-up and top-down strategy in the selection of investments offering the best reward versus risk opportunities. AlphaNorth manages the AlphaNorth Partners Fund which is a long biased small cap focused hedge fund and the AlphaNorth 2010 Flow-Through LP. The Fund's objective is to achieve industry leading long term returns. To know more visit: http://www.alphanorthasset.com/

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