European Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-based asset management boutique managing its portfolios based on a consistent entrepreneurial value investing approach. The company was founded in 2010 by two entrepreneurs, Patrick Hansen and Knut Reinertz, with the vision of offering customers access to private and public value based investments throughout different asset classes and structures. In 2014, the partnership has been opened strategically to the long term companion and passionate value investor Léon Kirch.
Léon Kirch, who has been fascinated by the value investing style since the beginning of his education and career as a professional investor more than 15 years ago, offered with his entrepreneurial approach to value investing the ideal strategic complement to the firm. Under his leadership, ECP is expanding its expertise in asset management into actively managed strategies in listed equities.
European Capital Partners is a modern value investor, offering an innovative approach to the 90-year history of value investing. Following the footsteps of Benjamin Graham, Léon Kirch has developed his unique way of looking at value investing. Léon Kirch calls his own style "Entrepreneurial Value Investing”, where in the combination of entrepreneurial thinking with high conviction and consistent implementation, he has been achieving an outstanding performance over the last seventeen years for the companies and products he has been investing for.
Today, investors have access to these value based strategies within the Luxembourg UCITS fund ECP Flagship SICAV or through Managed Accounts. Léon Kirch and his team are also among the first value style investors that deal with the excessive volatility of modern markets and respond to the increased pressures that clients face in terms of short term performance results an authentic value based solution. The "market hedged" classes in the ECP Flagship SICAV take into account the risk aversion of very conservative investors and the increased volatility of today`s equity markets by protecting the portfolio against the risk of a market decline by using efficient but simple hedging techniques.
The asset management structure around Léon Kirch consists of a core team of seven people. This group is integrated into the overall structure of the Edison Group which is comprised of another thirteen support people. Clients are served by an experienced and competent Luxembourg-based sales team in five languages.