A new beginning or the beginning of the end for Gartmore?

So Roger Guy is ‘retiring' from day-to-day fund management and CIO Dominic Rossi is off, barely five minutes after it seems he started.

Does this mark the end of the Gartmore name or the beginning of yet another chapter in asset management's equivalent of a soap opera? Vultures will no doubt be circling over the business, as they have been both prior and before the IPO. One of the main reasons the business hasn't been taken out has been Guy - he's been a strength and a weakness of the company. A strength because his European equity mandates have been major revenue contributors to the company for over a decade. A weakness because any time someone has looked to buy the business they have had to negotiate with Guy's r...