Boutique Focus: Charlemagne Capital

BOUTIQUE FOCUS

Since launch in 2000, Charlemagne Capital has emulated its namesake by expanding its investment empire across the world. Co-CIO Julian Mayo tells James Smith how emerging markets helped build this empire, and how investing in EMs is often about judging how the world will look in the imminent future and identifying oncoming trends

As the first Holy Roman Emperor in the 800s, Charlemagne built an empire that stretched from modern day France to incorporate most of Western and Central Europe. Since launch in 2000, the investment boutique that bears his name has extended its own horizons from Eastern Europe to a full spread of emerging markets across the world. Chief executive Jayne Sutcliffe started the business with a single Eastern European charity mandate, gradually bringing in specialists to focus on other parts of the global emerging market universe. Latest to join is MENA veteran Mark Krombas from GLG, wh...