Rambourg uses stockpicking discipline to identify long and short opportunities

Gartmore's European Absolute Return launch combines long-short and long-only approaches

Mark Colegate, editorial director of Asset TV, talks about the new Gartmore European Absolute Return fund with is manager Guillaume Rambourg. Gartmore has pioneered an approach whereby relative return long-only funds are managed on the same platform as long-short absolute return funds. Can you give us some background on your experience in managing these and how successful you have been? When I joined Gartmore back in 1995, almost 13 years ago, we were only doing long-only mandates, where my colleague, Roger Guy, already had a very strong household name within the long-only community a...