Paris-based equity investment boutique Verrazzano Capital, founded by former Gartmore manager Guillaume Rambourg, has unveiled its new long-only European equity fund to retail investor as an Ucits-compliant Luxembourg Sicav.
The Luxembourg-domiciled Verrazzano Advantage European fund aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing at least 80% of its assets in companies listed in continental Europe with a minimum investment of £2,000.
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Verrazzano Capital’s senior investment officers Tomás Pintó and Karim Moussalem will work alongside Rambourg to support the new strategy.
The new fund offered to external investors follows the launch of two successful European equity long-short strategies in 2012.
Verrazzano Capital, a team run by 16 professionals, has teamed up with Kepler Partners, a research-led distribution business, to distribute the Advantage European Fund to UK Institutions.
At Gartmore, Rambourg ran the firm’s £5.5 billion European equity business alongside Roger Guy in addition to being portfolio manager of Gartmore European Selected Opportunities and Gartmore Continental European funds between 1997 and 2010 and various AlphaGen hedge funds, including Capella, Tucana and Acamar, from 1999 to 2010.
Guillaume Rambourg chief investment officer said: "It is an important milestone for Verrazzano Capital, which has evolved quickly since 2011 thanks to investor appetite for our tried and tested investment approach and the meticulous path we took to building out the institutional platform."
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By GlobalDataRambourg was suspended from Gartmore in 2010 pending an investigation into alleged trading irregularities, but was later cleared of any wrongdoing by the regulator.
Currently, Verrazzano funds have amassing US$500 million in assets.
