Kames Capital

Kames Capital's fixed income team has said quantitative easing in Europe is a must in order to prevent Germany losing its AAA rating.

Kames Capital has increased the annual management charge on its £485m High Yield Bond fund from 1% to 1.25%.

Kames Capital's head of UK equities Stephen Adams has predicted UK plc could see negative earnings in 2012, undershooting consensus forecasts by 15%.

Kames Capital is set to appoint Peter Shaw as co-manager of the £361m UK Equity fund on 1 January.

James Murdoch has been re-elected as chairman of beleaguered media group BSkyb despite calls from fund management groups for his resignation.

Eurozone leaders need to act within the next few days or it will be "game over" for the euro, warned Kames Capital's Phil Milburn.

Kames Capital's Bill Dinning said the ECB needs to urgently introduce quantitative easing to avoid a situation that would make the Lehman Brothers collapse look like "child's play".

Kames Capital's Phil Milburn said Greece should be forced to leave the euro and Portuguese and Irish defaults pushed through as he outlines his solutions for the eurozone debt crisis.

Stephen Snowden has upped risk on the Kames Investment Grade Bond fund by "aggressively" increasing exposure to banks and topping up high yield on the view the bottom of the market has already been reached.

Kames Capital has poached three property multi-managers from ING Real Estate Investment Management.