Fund Manager of the Year Awards: Winner's interview with the Kames Diversified Monthly Income fund

Winner of the Multi Asset: Managed Income award

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In this series, Investment Week speaks to some of the winners of the Fund Manager of the Year Awards 2020 about their teams, how they construct portfolios, performance drivers and how their particular strategies may develop in the future.

Today, we speak to Kames Capital, whose Diversified Monthly Income fund won the Multi Asset: Managed Income award. Can you tell us about the winning team on the fund and how you construct the portfolio? Our multi asset team is based in both the Netherlands and UK and draws on our 35-year heritage supplying mixed and multi asset solutions to our parent company.  The fund's co-manager structure reflects that - Vincent McEntegart in the UK and Jacob Vijverberg in the Netherlands - ensuring we fully benefit from the breadth of expertise across the group.  The team is primarily respon...

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