F&C, Makis Kaketsis

Influenced by Stephen Evans at former employer DWS, UK Prime's manager focuses on stocks with two to three year development story

Click here to download pdf Adopting a simplistic approach to managing money, Makis Kaketsis is currently responsible for turning around the performance of the F&C UK Prime fund he took over from Derek Mitchell in December. Over one year to 15 May, the vehicle is ranked 18 in the 291-fund UK All Companies sector having returned 46.1%, bid to bid, against the mean of 32%, according to figures from Standard & Poor's. While this is a respectable outperformance of its sector peers, over the three months to the same end date the fund ranks first out of 301 with a return of 14.8% against 5%. ...