The Hague – September 28, 2022 –The Juno Selection Fund, which was launched in 2008 and focuses on smaller listed family-owned companies, has strengthened in its portfolio management team. Bobby Bader (30) has decided to use the experience he gained as a strategy consultant at Roland Berger, to become a financial analyst at Juno. He thus becomes the fourth team member, together with Lennart Smits, Frans Jurgens and Ernest van Tuyll, to focus primarily on the Juno Selection Fund. With his arrival, the total portfolio management/analyst team leading Juno's two mutual funds has grown to seven persons.

Bobby completed his master's degree (cum laude) in Econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2017, whilst working as a graduate intern at Deloitte's Financial Risk Management department. He subsequently started working as a consultant at Roland Berger in 2017. There he has done advisory work for senior management boards and regularly drafted extensive research reports for companies in the financial sector and private equity firms. He has gained much experience in the fields of business strategy & growth, transformations and business planning.

Bobby Bader: “I was looking for a personal, but professional organization where I would be given the opportunity to fully immerse myself in companies and their business models. Understanding how things really work, and how successful companies can continue their growth in the future, fascinates me. I am curious by nature and like to get to the heart of the matter. This forms a fertile basis for gaining new investment ideas and for closely following progress that is being made by the companies that we have already included in the Juno investment portfolio. Investing successfully, and for the long term, is more than just number crunching, you really need to understand the business models to know why you are investing in a particular (family) business”.

Frans Jurgens, co-founder, and member of the Juno Selection Fund’s portfolio management team: “We have found in Bobby a smart and experienced professional whose background is deliberately not in the financial markets or asset management. We wanted a sharp thinker with a broad range of interests, who wants to know how things work and how things are interconnected. Someone who can also build good, long-term relationships with the management teams of the companies in which we invest. After Duncan Siewe made the switch from the Selection Fund to our sister fund, Continuation, we have been wanting to fill the vacant position for some time now. With Bobby we believe we have found a very suitable successor”.

About Juno Investment Partners

Since 2007, Juno Investment Partners has been investing in a highly concentrated portfolio of European listed companies with predictable and stable earnings growth, often family-owned businesses.

We focus on companies with a high return on invested capital, strong margins, and highly predictable (free) cash flows. These are typically companies with a strong competitive position and clear added value for their clients, enabling them to continue creating value over the long term.

Based on these characteristics, we select a limited number of companies that we want to understand thoroughly. The portfolio consists of approximately fifteen companies. These are analyzed intensively, visited regularly, and monitored over several years. The investment horizon is long, typically well over five years. Our analysts and portfolio managers also invest in the funds themselves.

Juno offers three products. The Juno Selection Fund focuses on small and medium-sized companies. The Juno Continuation Fund focuses on medium-sized companies. In addition, Juno offers individual asset management via managed accounts, using the same investment approach. The Juno Selection Fund was launched in 2008 and invests in European companies with an initial market capitalization between €250 million and €4 billion. The fund was closed to new investments for a long time and has been accessible to existing participants again since April 2023.

The Juno Continuation Fund was launched on February 1, 2020, and invests in medium-sized companies with a market capitalization between €4 and €20 billion. Here, too, the emphasis is on companies that often have family or management as co-shareholders.

Juno holds an AIFM license from the AFM.