Kames CEO Davis: 'We have to get into the risk game'

Kames Capital CEO Martin Davis talks to Anna Fedorova about Scottish independence, rebranding, and the group's plans to diversify away from the fixed income space.

Kames Capital is widely known in the UK market as a fixed income house, but the new chief executive is keen to diversify away from this asset class in the next few years. Martin Davis, formerly chief executive of Cofunds, joined Kames Capital last October following the departure of Andrew Fleming earlier in the year. Davis previously identified multi-asset as one of the key areas for product development shortly after taking on his new role, and he told Investment Week it still remains a key focus. “We are keen to diversify away from fixed income, as we cannot generate assets just arou...