Snowden leaves Kames amid fixed income exodus

'Serious blow'

Beth Brearley
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Kames Capital has seen a wave of departures from its fixed income team, including co-head of fixed income Stephen Snowden and head of high yield David Ennett.

Fund managers Stephen Baines and Juan Valenzuela are also leaving the business "to pursue other interests".  In light of the departures Kames has announced a raft of changes to its fixed income team, including the appointment of several co-managers. Grace Le will join existing co-manager Euan McNeil on the Investment Grade Bond and Investment Grade Global Bond funds, Rory Sandilands will become co-manager with existing manager Colin Finlayson on the Absolute Return Bond fund and Finlayson also becomes co-manager on the Strategic Bond and Strategic Global Bond funds with current co-man...

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