Guinness to launch Global Innovators fund for UK investors

Guinness Asset Management is to launch a version of the Global Innovators strategy run by its US sister company Guinness Atkinson, targeting UK investors.

According to the firm's founder Tim Guinness (pictured), the fund will launch in six weeks' time and will be run by Ian Mortimer and Matthew Page. The strategy was launched in the US in 1998 and has been run by the pair for around eight years but until now has only been available to US investors. In the UK, the duo currently also run the £60m Guinness Global Equity Income fund. The Global Innovator fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through investment in companies which are positioned to benefit from advances in technology, communication, globalism, or innovative management....