Sycomore Asset Management (Sycomore AM) has said that it will seek to accelerate development efforts of its directional equity long/short fund Sycomore L/S Opportunities outside of France, where the firm’s base of assets has historically been located.

Managed by Gilles Sitbon, the Sycomore L/S Opportunities fund is currently registered for sale only in France.

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Sycomore AM said that the strategy will focus on deep bottom-up research with strong synergies with its team of 10 equity buy-side analysts including Olivier Mollé, portfolio manager of the firm equity market neutral strategy.

The fund is up +26.3% against +21.7% for the EURO STOXX Total Return with a 10% volatility against 21% for the equity index.

As of end of September 2013, Sycomore Asset Management manages €1.8 billion including €230 million on equity long short funds and Sycomore L/S Opportunities has total assets under management of €85 million.

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