Kames Capital adds to fixed income team

Kames Capital has hired Rory Sandilands as investment manager within the firm’s award winning fixed income team. Based in the company’s Edinburgh office, Sandilands will report into investment manager Stephen Snowden.
Sandilands has 14 years’ investment banking experience with an extensive background in credit sales across investment grade, high yield, derivatives and asset backed securities. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs where he spent ten years as an executive director in the firm’s credit sales team. Before Goldman Sachs, Sandilands was at Morgan Stanley where he was vice president in fixed income credit sales.
In his role as investment manager at Kames, Sandilands will be responsible for working with the fixed income team to source instruments suitable for the burgeoning Absolute Return Bond franchise.
David Roberts, head of fixed income at Kames Capital said: “We now have five absolute return bond products, with rapidly expanding assets under management. We will utilise Rory’s deep knowledge of the credit market to further enhance our offering and maintain our capacity for continued growth.”