Threadneedle, Michael Taylor

Having turned the group's five UK equity funds around, Taylor is ready to hand over control and resume his role as head of equities for the group

After a rocky period on its UK desk, Threadneedle's head of equities, Michael Taylor, took control of the retail fund range when former UK equity head Graham Kitchen left the group in August. One of a long line of departures over the past year, Kitchen had initially been brought in to propel the group's UK equity range into the top quartile. However, despite removing Paul Cramp from the UK Smaller Companies Growth and UK Mid 250 funds and replacing Mark Holden on UK Accelerando and UK Select, Kitchen left for Henderson Global Investors before the task was complete. With several other m...