Mutares – executive interview

Mutares (MUX) is an investment company acquiring businesses in special situations that are underperforming and can be turned around through financial and operational restructuring.

In this interview, Johannes Laumann, chief investment officer at Mutares, discusses the company’s investment process, aimed at achieving a return on invested capital of 7–10x, and its investment pipeline in this challenging macroeconomic environment. He also talks about how the company realises its investments, how it manages its balance sheet and what investors can expect in terms of dividend pay outs.