Christopher Rowe

Christopher is CEO of Arc Fund Management Ltd and has some 35 years experience in equity markets as a stockbroker. He has built up a considerable following amongst UK and European investment managers. He was Managing Director, and is now Chairman of Arc Fund Management Limited. Christopher helped to found the company in order to provide independent fundamental research to institutional investors. He has established a successful track record of raising capital for small to mid-cap listed companies. He was co-founder of a global equity hedge fund, which was subsequently successfully sold. Christopher has responsibility for Arc's portfolio investment management.

Linnet Cotterill

Linnet graduated from Cambridge University in 1986 with a BA and MA in Biotechnology. Linnet has been a fund manager for over fifteen years. She started her career with N.M Rothschild & Sons in 1986, where she was the fund manager for various pension funds covering UK equities in various market sectors. Linnet was later fund manager for John Govett, where she managed the Govett UK Smaller Companies Fund (£50m), and was co-manager of the Govett Strategic Investment Trust (£250m). Most recently she worked as fund manager at Morley Fund Management, where she specialised in Ethical Retail Funds and US equities. Linnet will be responsible for the review of short-listed investment opportunities.

Arc specialises in tax-efficient investments under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). The investments are by way of HM Revenue & Customs approved Funds, which each invest in a range of companies across different sectors.

The purpose of this form of investment is to bring together young, innovative companies with innovative and potentially profitable business ideas and investors in a tax efficient way using the incentives offered by current tax legislation. Companies with high growth potential, which qualify for the tax benefits of the EIS, are targeted for investment at an early stage so as to take advantage of greater potential growth possibilities.

Members of the fund management team are experienced in Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) investment having launched three funds in the last two years and they have completed some 38 deals to date.

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The Fund is an Open Ended Investment Company (OEIC). An OEIC works in a very similar way to a unit trust. ARC, the fund manager,launched in 2005 what it believes to be the first FSA authorised European Property Fund that will include the acquisition and development of residential property as part of its investment strategy.

The Arc OEIC provides exposure to a buoyant European property market in a way that is administratively and legally much simpler than direct investment into a property in Europe.

An OEIC has a company structure, so that when you invest, you will hold shares. It is open-ended, which means that the fund can get larger or smaller, depending on the number of investors who wish to buy or sell shares. OEICs are a relatively new form of investment vehicle and are increasingly replacing unit trusts.

One advantage of a fund structured as an OEIC is that it has a single price, directly linked to the value of the fund's underlying investments. All shares in the fund are bought and sold at this single price. This contrasts with unit trusts, which normally have different buying and selling prices.

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