Taking a page from the playbook of his former boss
Michael Price,
ex-Franklin Mutual portfolio manager
David Marcus
debuted two funds from his new firm,
Evermore Global Advisors.
The
Evermore Global Value Fund and
Evermore European Value Fund both carry expense ratios of 99 bps for A, I and C shares.
| David Marcus Evermore Global Advisors Co-Founder, CIO and Lead Portfolio Manager | |
Launched last December 31, the funds are available through
Pershing's platform. "We expect to be on Fidelity's Institutional Funds Network, Schwab OneSource and TD Ameritrade's Institutional platforms by the end of this month," said
Lily Simo, head of marketing and shareholder services.
The funds use
U.S. Bank as custodian,
U.S. Bancorp Fund Services as administrator,
Bingham McCutchen LLP as counsel and
Ernst & Young as the independent registered public accountant.
Price is one of three people on the Evermore's advisory board. The two others are
Michael Lipper,
founder and president of Lipper Advisory Services and former SEC chair
Harvey Pitt.
Going from mutual funds to hedge funds and now back again to mutual funds, Marcus co-founded Summit, New Jersey-based Evermore with fellow Franklin alum
Eric Legoff last June. Half of Evermore's eight-person team are Franklin alums.
In early 2009, before the market rally, Marcus got together with Legoff. "When we looked back at the business Michael Price
built in the '70s, '80s and '90s, it's a fantastic business model," Marcus said. They then decided to take a page out of Price's playbook.
"Our approach is active value," Marcus added. "We tend to engage with the businesses we invest in."
Marcus joined Mutual Series Fund as an intern in 1987. He went on to become a research analyst, eventually rising to become a portfolio manger of the Mutual European Fund and co-portfolio manager of the Mutual Shares Fund
and Mutual Discovery Fund. By the time of his departure in 2000, he was managing more than half of the firm's assets.
That year, Marcus started Marcstone Capital Management, a long/short European-focused equity manager. Two years later, he closed
it after Marcstone's lead investor passed away. In 2003, Marcus co-founded Stonebrook Partners, LLC, the family office of the Stenbeck family.
Then in 2004, he founded MarCap Investors LP, serving as managing partner and investment manager of a European small cap special situations
fund and all-cap global fund.
Marcus' latest venture got its name from legendary Wall Street trader Jesse Livermore's Long Island mansion, Evermore.
"I read his bio many years ago and I thought of the name," Marcus said. 
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