Bennett exits Marlborough to join Argonaut

Greg Bennett has left Marlborough to join his former Neptune colleagues at Argonaut Capital.

Barry Norris and Olly Russ, who set up Argonaut as a joint venture boutique with Ignis Asset Managers in 2005, have hired Bennett to work on the investment team running the Argonaut European Alpha, European Absolute Return, European Income and Enhanced Income funds. In August, Investment Week revealed Argonaut would move independent from Ignis as the boutique detailed plans to strengthen the investment and distribution teams. At Marlborough, Bennett ran the UK Equity Income and UK Income and Growth funds which are the bottom two funds in the 83-strong UK Equity Income sector over thre...