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The Polar Capital Global Small Company Team
Dan Boston joined Polar Capital in September 2024 from Brown Capital Management to establish the Global Small Company team. The team take a 'research first' approach to seeking out sustainable, wealth creating smaller companies, with the ability to compound over the long-term and become industry leaders.
The vision is to provide consistency by incorporating one philosophy, one process, and one team across all Global Small Company funds. The team will focus efforts firstly on the International Small Company Fund, which launched 30/9/2024. The long-term road map includes Global and Emerging Markets Small Company funds.
2024
Established
34
Combined years of experience
3
Team members
Dan Boston
Lead Manager, Researcher
Maxine Mazan, CFA
Researcher
Lydia Yuan, CFA
Researcher
Dan Boston
Dan joined Polar Capital in September 2024 as Head of the Global Small Company team and Lead Manager on the Polar Capital International Small Company Fund.
Prior to joining Polar Capital, Dan worked at Brown Capital Management, where he led the International Small Company strategy, which managed $3.5bn across a mutual fund and various managed accounts.
- BSc in Accountancy, Brigham Young University; MBA, Yale School of Management
- 19 years
Maxine Mazan, CFA
Maxine Mazan joined Polar Capital in September 2024 as a Researcher in the Global Small Company Team. She joined from JO Hambro Capital Management where she spent three years as an Investment Analyst. Prior to this, from 2014 she worked at Federated Hermes, latterly as an investment analyst with the Hermes Impact Opportunities Team.
- MA in International Relations, Edinburgh University; MSc in Applied Neuroscience, King’s College London; MPhil Management, Cambridge University
- 9 years
Lydia Yuan, CFA
Lydia Yuan joined Polar Capital in October 2024 as a Researcher in the Global Small Company Team. She joined from Oppenheimer where she was an Equity Research Associate specializing in the global industrial sector. Prior to this, she spent nearly four years as an Equity Research Associate, working as a generalist across multiple sectors including industrials, healthcare and consumer, at Harding Loevner.
Lydia is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a CFA Institute Charterholder. She was a Research Assistant at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business under Professor Ben Brooks.
- BA in Economics, University of Chicago
- CFA Charterholder
- 5 years
