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Former Neptune manager Rob Burnett has unveiled plans for the first fund launch from his new investment business, Lightman Investment Management, which has received FCA authorisation and was set up at the start of this year. The team will take a minimum two-to-three-year view, investing in companies valued at low price-to-book and price-to-earnings ratios with high free cash flowyields, while avoiding companies at high valuation ratios. Banks Burnett, who previously headed up analysis of the global financials sector at Neptune, is bullish on European banks, where he says there are "good opportunities at these prices" naming SocGen and Intesa Sanpaolo as potentially interesting.