The Big Interview with Tyndall IM's Alex Odd: 'M&A would dilute what we are trying to achieve'

Focus on organic growth

Alex Odd, co-founder and CEO of Tyndall Investment Management, talks to Investment Week’s Valeria Martinez and reflects on the firm’s first five years, why it is not taking part in the M&A drive across boutiques and what the next milestones may be.

Five years ago, Odd launched private client investment management boutique Tyndall alongside Edward Allen, with an objective to generate "real, above inflation returns", while adhering to its "core values" of clarity, patience, independence and personal accountability. Prior to founding Tyndall, Odd worked as an assistant fund manager at Jupiter, before joining M&G in 2005, where he managed the Dividend fund. Before his departure in 2013, the strategy had £1.4bn in assets under management.  "The perception of what a fund manager existed to do wasn't what I wanted to do, so M&G and I p...