Shareholders in Gartmore have seen close to £300m (€336m) wiped off the market value of the UK-listed fund manager in the 24 hours since it announced the suspension of star manager Guillaume Rambourg.
Gartmore Group listed about 307 million shares on the London Stock Exchange in December at 220p each, giving it a market capitalisation of £675.99m. By 16:00 BST today, the stock was trading at 128p, meaning shareholders had suffered a paper loss of 92p on every share and Gartmore's market capitalisation had fallen to £393.30m.