Smart Money: Mackenzie Investments’ Dongwei Ye on why she is upbeat on small-cap stocks this year

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Open this photo in gallery: BRE ELBOURN/The Globe and Mail Dongwei Ye, who grew up in China’s Inner Mongolia region, was 14 when she saw the 1987 Black Monday global stock market crash unfold on TV. Given there was no stock market yet in China, she was mesmerized. Her curiosity about markets led her to earn an MBA in finance at McGill University, and land a job later with Howson Tattersall Investment Counsel, a small-cap-focused firm acquired by Mackenzie Investments. Since 2012, Ye and Scott Carscallen have co-managed the $160.3-million Mackenzie Canadian Small Cap Fund, which has outpaced the S&P/TSX...