Artemis has made a pair of hires from LV Asset Management for its European equity strategies, appointing Mark Page and Laurent Millet as fund managers, effective September.

Page was most recently head of European equities at LVAM, before which he was director of Schroders Investment Management International and deputy head of a global equity team.

Millet worked in Page’s team at LVAM as a European fund manager, before which he worked as an equity analyst and strategist for a number of French and Swiss institutions.

At Artemis Page and Millet will be managing focused European (excluding UK) equity mandates, built using a fundamental stock-picking approach, for both Artemis’ retail and institutional clients. The new strategy aims to complement Artemis’ quant-based European product.

Artemis is to launch a UCITS-compliant Artemis European Opportunities Fund, subject to regulatory approval, to be managed by Page and Millet.