Gartmore looking to regain its strong retail house reputation

Gartmore Investment Management

Gartmore Investment Management looks to be waking from its four-year hibernation. Jeff Prestridge, personal finance editor of the Financial Mail on Sunday, assesses what the new, pared-down version of this sleeping giant has to offer

Is Gartmore Investment Management one of the great names of the retail fund management industry, finally waking from a self-imposed four-year long hibernation? It seems so. Battered and bruised by the fallout from the bursting of the technology bubble in early 2000, Gartmore, which has had five owners in its relatively short 36-year life, has spent the recent past quietly reinventing itself. But, now, armed with its new "hunter" brand signifying a newfound investment attitude, a slimmed down fund range and a committed owner in US giant Nationwide Mutual, the group is on the march again. A...