Gervais Williams, who made his reputation running small-cap funds at investment house Gartmore, is to manage a new vehicle being launched by MAM Funds, of whichhe is managing director.

Gervais Williams, who made his reputation running small-cap funds at investment house Gartmore, is to manage a new vehicle being launched by MAM Funds, of whichhe is managing director.

The Acuim UK Multi Cap Income Fund will apply some of the thinking behind Williams’s new book, Slow Finance, in which he urges investors to look again at companies close to where they live and work, rather than entrusting their money to distant emerging markets.

He believes that the coming years will see dividend-paying companies return to favour, as opposed to more fashionable ‘growth’ stocks.