Montanaro European Smaller Companies (MTE) is a growth-focused European smaller companies fund. It has faced strong headwinds in recent years as value investing has been more popular in Europe and elsewhere. Earlier this year, performance was hurt by a sell-off in software shares as investors weighed the potential impact of agentic artificial intelligence. More recently, MTE’s performance has recovered, for reasons set out in this note, and the manager remains optimistic. Steps announced by t ....