The Aalborg-based boutique Symmetry Invest has expanded its investment team at the start of the year, most recently with the addition of Thomas Richard from Paris as an investment analyst for its long/short equity strategy. Richard joins founder Andreas Aaen, portfolio manager Henrik Abrahamsson, and Joseph Isaac Rein-Saunders, who also came on board as an investment analyst earlier in March.
“We are pleased to welcome Thomas Richard to the Symmetry Invest team,” the firm announced on LinkedIn. Richard spent the past four years co-managing European small- and micro-cap equity funds at French asset manager Philippe Hottinguer Gestion. At Symmetry Invest, he will focus on sourcing and analyzing investment opportunities across European and U.S. public markets, while also contributing to capital allocation decisions within the fund.
“We are pleased to welcome Thomas Richard to the Symmetry Invest team.”
“I am very happy and honored to share that I will be joining Symmetry Invest as an Investment Analyst, starting in March,” Richard wrote on LinkedIn. “Ever since I began investing in 2018, I have been increasingly drawn to deep fundamental research, flexible investment approaches, and asymmetric risk reward opportunities, which makes this role a particularly exciting next step for me,” he added. “The quality of the team, the track record, and the investment approach made my decision easy. Aalborg was just the destination. Starting in this kind of market environment, with a peak of volatility and uncertainty, feels like the right moment to find opportunities.”
“The quality of the team, the track record, and the investment approach made my decision easy. Aalborg was just the destination.”
Founded in March 2013 by Aaen, long/short equity fund Symmetry Invest applies a value-oriented approach focused on small- and mid-cap companies, initially in Europe and now increasingly across the Americas. From managing DKK 85.5 million at the end of 2019, the firm has grown to oversee more than DKK 1 billion in the second half of 2025. Since inception, the strategy has delivered an annualized return of approximately 16 percent.
After running the fund largely on his own for several years, Aaen brought in co-portfolio manager Henrik Abrahamsson in 2021. The addition of two analysts this month marks a further build-out of the team.
