Brown Capital Management Small Company Fund Institutional Shares
BCSSX
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- Financial Services
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- Asset Management
- Address
- 1201 N. Calvert Street Baltimore MD United States of America 21202
- IPO Date
- Dec 15, 2011
- CIK
- 0000869351
- Website
- browncapital.com
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- Brown Capital Management Small Company Fund Institutional Shares (BCSSX) is a mutual fund that seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity securities of small companies defined by total operating revenues of $500 million or less; current income remains a secondary consideration. The fund maintains a concentrated portfolio focused on exceptional growth companies in sectors such as technology, healthcare, and industrials, with top holdings including Veeva Systems Inc., Datadog Inc., AppFolio Inc., Guidewire Software Inc., and Repligen Corp.; it allocates approximately 97% to U.S. stocks and holds about 2.8% in cash. Brown Capital Management, LLC, the fund's investment adviser founded in 1983 and headquartered at 1201 North Calvert Street in Baltimore, Maryland, manages the fund alongside its Small Company, Mid Company, and International equity strategies offered through separately managed accounts and mutual funds; the firm oversees roughly $8.1 billion in assets for institutional and high-net-worth clients across the United States. In recent strategic shifts, Brown Capital Management terminated its Mid Company strategy in 2024, including both separately managed accounts and the mutual fund with $102 million in assets as of June 30, 2024, to reallocate resources toward expanding its International Small Company and International All Company strategies; effective August 1, 2025, the firm updated benchmarks for these international funds to better align with its bottom-up exceptional growth company philosophy. The Small Company Fund itself faced significant capital gains distributions in 2025, estimating $23.27 per share payable around December 11, 2025, marking the second consecutive year of substantial payouts that impacted net asset value by nearly half; total net assets for BCSSX stand at approximately $646 million, with institutional shares featuring a 1.12% net expense ratio and a minimum initial investment of $500,000.