Aboard the good ship Artemis

At a time when the economic situation has investors knocking each other over to get to the lifeboats, Mark Tyndall, chief executive of Artemis, stands firmly at the helm with a more rational take on the situation

"Our feeling at the moment is if you had been clever enough to have been underweight equities you should be thankful and start to re-engage, but if you never got out of equities it is too late. There is no point taking emergency measures now because the time for that was last year," says Mark Tyndall, CEO at Artemis. As a fund management group, the boutique has not been immune to the current investment climate. Like many of its peers, Artemis had a tough 2008 in terms of fund performance but Tyndall has no plans to change course. It uses an investment process that combines income sele...