Artemis prepares 'plain vanilla' bond funds under ex-Kames duo

Corporate Bond and Global High Yield funds to launch soon

Mike Sheen
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Artemis is set to launch two bond funds under former Kames co-heads of fixed income and high yield respectively Stephen Snowden and David Ennett, Investment Week can reveal.

Snowden and Ennett joined Artemis earlier this year as fixed income managers alongside colleagues Stephen Baines and Juan Valenzuela, prompting a raft of fund management changes on Kames' fixed income offering. The Artemis Corporate Bond and Global High Yield funds, the global mandates to be run by Snowden and Ennett respectively, will follow a similar strategy to that taken by the pair throughout their careers in fund management. Snowden's Kames Investment Grade Bond fund was up 22.8% over five years to November 2018 when he left the firm, while Ennett's high yield fund returned 17.3...

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