Artemis' Steer handed mandates on SIG's Best Ideas funds

Steer has been handed a mandate of £38m on Skandia Global Best Ideas and £24m on UK Best Ideas, taking over from Audrey Ryan at Kames Capital. Steer, who also runs a long/short best ideas mandate within the Skandia UK Strategic Best Ideas fund, now accounts for 16.66% of UK Best Ideas and forms part of the 50% UK allocation on Global Best Ideas. "Tim is a hugely experienced and highly skilled manager and is well known to us having managed a mandate for UK Best Ideas when at New Star," said SIG portfolio manager Lee Freeman-Shor. "Additionally, Tim currently manages a mandate in UK ...