Kames appoints Ferguson as head of UK wholesale

Follows May departure of Mark Savage

Mike Sheen
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Kames Capital has promoted Mark Ferguson to head of UK wholesale distribution with responsibility for managing relationships with accounts across the UK and Ireland.

Ferguson, who initially joined Kames as a business development manager in 2014 from his role as director for fund sales at Ignis Asset Management, will also join parent company Aegon Asset Management's EMEA distribution management team. It follows the May departure of former head of UK distribution Mark Savage, who left the firm after 16 years to pursue opportunities elsewhere. Savage had moved into his now-former role in October 2018 following the departure of Steve Kenny from this business, amid a restructure of Kames' sales team ahead of the UK's departure from the EU. Since the...

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