Kames CEO Martin Davis to step down

CIO Stephen Jones will take up UK duties on an interim basis

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CEO of Kames Capital Martin Davis is to step down after six years with the firm, Investment Week has learned.

The firm's CIO Stephen Jones will take up Davis' (pictured) UK duties on an interim basis, but a replacement will not be selected until global CEO of Aegon Asset Management - Kames' parent company - Bas NieuweWeme releases his plans for the group, which he is expected to do very soon. NieuweWeme, who will take up Davis' European duties, only recently joined the firm and has been in consultation to develop his strategy going forward. Davis joined Kames from his role as CEO of Cofunds in 2013, since which time he has brought the firm's European operations under a single management. I...

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