JOHCM hires from T Rowe for concentrated European equity launch

T Rowe Price's Luis Faňanas has joined J.O. Hambro Capital Management ahead of the launch of a new European Concentrated Value fund later this month.

Faňanas will work alongside Robrecht Wouters, who manages the firm's existing European Select Values (ESV) strategy launched in 2003. He will help set up the new concentrated fund as well as assisting in the management of the existing pan-European, unconstrained all-cap strategy. Faňanas joins from T Rowe Price, where he was a senior member of the global small and mid-cap team since 2012, focusing on European stocks. Prior to that, he worked as a research director at Deutsche Bank, also focusing on small and mid-cap European equities. The new concentrated strategy will be based ...