Polar Capital announces future addition of a sustainable thematic equity team coming from Robeco
17 juni 2021
Polar Capital Holdings plc (Polar Capital), the specialist active asset management group, has announced that Thiemo Lang and a team of three investment managers will join Polar Capital from Robeco Switzerland Ltd, Zurich, in September 2021 and are expecting to launch their first funds later this year.
The team’s expertise in sustainable equity strategies focuses on the transformation and decarbonisation of the energy sector, and on the emerging electric vehicle theme. The investment strategies the team creates provide sustainable answers to the growing worldwide demand for clean and competitive energy and transportation.
At Polar Capital the team will be led by Thiemo Lang who has a PhD in micro-optics and photonics from the Grenoble Institute of Technology. He studied at the University of Stuttgart and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and has more than two decades of thematic investment experience.
The well-established investment team consists of highly specialised investment professionals with an exceptional thematic knowledge acquired over many years, running more than €5bn in sustainable energy and mobility strategies. Investment performance has been strong in absolute and relative terms, with outperformance of the relevant benchmarks in 2020, over three years, and since inception.
Source: Polar Capital
