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European Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-based asset management boutique that uses a consistent Entrepreneurial Value Investing approach to manage its portfolios. Renowned Chief Investment Officer Léon Kirch and his team offer clients two service options:

Asset management services with various actively-managed listed equities strategies (click left for more information).
AIFM management company (ManCo) services for external asset managers (click right for more information).

Our history

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.

Our Shareholders

EDISON GROUP

50%

LÉON KIRCH

50%

Léon
Kirch

Member of the Board of Directors
Conducting Officer

Léon Kirch, born in Luxembourg in 1972, has been involved with Value Style Investing for twenty years now. He is one of the few value managers worldwide who have outperformed the MSCI Europe over a period of twelve years. Kirch is known to clients foremost as a fund manager of the Nordea European Value Fund that he co-managed from 2002 to 2014. Léon Kirch became an equity partner at European Capital Partners in 2014. He graduated with a degree in Commercial Engineering from Solvay Brussels School in 1996. Léon Kirch is fluent in four languages. He was founding President of the Luxembourg CFA Society and is a regular guest speaker at the University of Luxembourg.

Jan Stig
Rasmussen

Member of the Board of Directors

Jan Stig Rasmussen, born in Denmark in 1961, is a Non-Executive Director of the Board of European Capital Partners S.A. since 2015. He embarked on his career in the financial services industry in Denmark in 1980 and has worked and lived in Luxembourg since 1987. Rasmussen is an experienced regional CEO with proven expertise in setting up asset management enterprises in Europe in various jurisdictions. He was Executive Director at Nordea Bank S.A.’s Private Banking division and worked as the CEO of the Danish Sparinvest S.A. during the last decade. Rasmussen has furthermore been a member of Sparinvest's Group Executive Committee (2005-2013) as well as Managing Director of Nordea Investment Funds S.A. (2000-2005).

Knut
Reinertz

Member of the Board of Directors

Knut Reinertz, born in Luxembourg in 1963, has spent a major part of his career in banking and finance. He joined Banque BGL in 1987 and worked for them in various functions in Luxembourg and Hong Kong, where his last position was regional Chief Representative and General Manager. He headed up the New Markets department of the private banking division of Fortis Bank in Luxembourg in 2002. Reinertz co-founded Edison Capital Partners S.A. with Patrick Hansen in 2010 and has completed successfully several entrepreneurial transactions. He is a CFA Charterholder and was Vice President for the Luxembourg CFA Society. Knut Reinertz graduated with a degree in banking and finance from the University of Trier.

Patrick
Hansen

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Patrick Hansen, born in Luxembourg in 1972, started his career in finance and banking in London and Moscow in 2000. He is a successful entrepreneur who founded several companies one of which was sold to a Nasdaq-quoted Company (MNST); a second one was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (REA). Hansen co-founded Edison Capital Partners S.A. in 2010 and Luxaviation in 2008. He is the CEO of Luxaviation Group, one of the leading business aviation groups worldwide. Hansen holds a degree in Commercial Engineering from ICHEC / Brussels and has an MBA in Finance from McGill University.

PLEASE CONTACT US

European Capital Partners is happy to assist journalists with their press enquiries. All questions and concerns can be addressed to Thomas Janneau, Conducting Officer, who is the responsible PR contact for the company. Written materials and press interviews as well as photo requests are available on request:

European Capital Partners (Luxembourg) S.A.
Thomas Janneau
Conducting Officer
35A, Avenue John F. Kennedy
L- 1855 Luxembourg
Tel.: +352 2784 3643
Email: tjanneau(at)ecp.lu