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European Assets Trust (EAT) seeks to generate attractive long-term capital growth through investment in quoted small and medium-sized companies in Europe, excluding the UK. As well as capital growth the company aims to offer an attractive dividend, with payments made in January, April, July and October of each year.
Mine Tezgul is a portfolio manager in the European equities team where she is lead portfolio manager of Threadneedle European Smaller Companies strategy and co-manager of the Threadneedle Pan European Small Cap Opportunities strategy. Mine joined the company in 2018 as an equity analyst and became deputy portfolio manager of the European Smaller Companies and Pan European Smaller Companies strategies in 2019.
Prior to this, Mine spent over 10 years as an equity analyst focusing on developed market equities, working at Lansdowne Partners, SAC Global Investors and Highbridge Capital Management. She started her career with Citigroup as a financial analyst in its investment banking division.
She holds a BA in Economics with General Honours from the University of Chicago and an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD.
Philip Dicken joined the company in 2004 and has managed the pan European smaller companies strategy since it was launched in 2005, and jointly manages the pan European small cap opportunities strategy. He became head of European equities in 2012 and head of international equities in 2022.
He started his career with Merrill Lynch as an analyst in the Corporate Finance division and holds a first class degree in Mechanical Engineering with study in Continental Europe from Bristol University.
He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Society of the UK.
European Assets Trust provides investors an easy way to access the growth of European’s most dynamic smaller companies. Our portfolio managers, backed by the global expertise of Columbia Threadneedle’s investment team, search for smaller European companies that are under-researched and under-valued.
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