The Aalborg-based boutique Symmetry Invest has expanded its investment team at the start of the year, with the additions of Thomas Richard from Paris and Joseph Isaac Rein-Saunders from Berlin as investment analysts. The two join founder Andreas Aaen and portfolio manager Henrik Abrahamsson in managing the asset manager’s long/short equity strategy.
“We are pleased to welcome Thomas Richard and Joseph Isaac Rein-Saunders to the Symmetry Invest team,” the firm announces. 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 building and managing his own concentrated portfolio of ideas within the fund.
“We are pleased to welcome Thomas Richard to the Symmetry Invest team.”
“From Paris to Aalborg. Different city, same passion with finding listed mispriced businesses and generate sustained alpha over the long term,” Richard wrote on LinkedIn. “The fit with my background felt natural: deep fundamental research on smaller companies where rigorous analysis can create alpha, flexible investment approaches and a constant focus on asymmetric risk/reward opportunities,” 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.”
“From Paris to Aalborg. Different city, same passion with finding listed mispriced businesses and generate sustained alpha over the long term.”
Thomas Richard
Earlier in March, Joseph Isaac Rein-Saunders also joined Symmetry Invest as an Investment Analyst. He joins the Aalborg-based boutique from Berlin, where he spent the past four years studying economics at Humboldt University of Berlin, while supporting several public equity funds through internships and freelance research roles. During this time, he collaborated with firms including Lupus Alpha, ELENA Partners, Köhn & Kerkhoff, and Gehlen Bräutigam Capital. Similar to Richard, at Symmetry, Rein-Saunders will focus on identifying and evaluating investment opportunities across European and U.S. public markets, as well as allocating capital within the portfolio in collaboration with the investment team.
“I am very happy and honored to share that I will be joining Symmetry Invest as an Investment Analyst, starting in March,” Rein-Saunders 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. “Symmetry’s focus on deep fundamental research, a concentrated long-term investment approach, and the search for asymmetric opportunities in less widely followed areas of the market strongly resonate with how I approach investing. Combined with the team’s quality and track record, this made joining an obvious decision. I am excited to contribute to the firm’s research efforts and to work alongside the team.”
“I am very happy and honored to share that I will be joining Symmetry Invest as an Investment Analyst, starting in March.”
Joseph Isaac Rein-Saunders
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.
