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Stewart joined RSMR in August 2011 and has played a key role in the development of the market-leading RSMR ratings service and also manages a large number of bespoke advisory portfolios on behalf of a wide range of IFA clients. He is lead Portfolio Manager for the Rfolios discretionary portfolios having been involved since their launch as well as the management of the preceding advisory portfolios from their launch back in 2015. Stewart joined RSMR from Honister Capital where he was part of the internal research team responsible for fund and product research, including construction of the recommended fund and product lists for the company’s financial advisers involving, amongst other aspects, face-to-face meetings with fund managers and attending conferences.
Mr. Harding is a vice president and fixed income strategist in the London office, focusing on multi-sector fixed income strategies. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2019, he was a fixed income specialist at UBS Asset Management, covering global rates, global credit, and unconstrained strategies. Prior to that, he spent more than 12 years on M&G Investments' fixed income team, most recently as an investment director, communicating the team's fixed income strategies to a wide range of clients and prospects. He has 19 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree in economics and public policy from Leeds Beckett University in the U.K.
Robert is Head of Credit Research and co-manager of the Strategic Bond Strategy. He joined Baillie Gifford in 2001 on the graduate scheme, becoming an investment grade bond manager in 2004 before going on to manage high yield portfolios in 2010. He is responsible for running the corporate credit portion of the Managed strategy. Robert has managed strategic bond strategies since 2012. He graduated MMath from Durham University in 2001 and is a CFA Charterholder.
Rory Sandilands, Portfolio Manager, is a member of the Aegon Asset Management investment grade and multi-sector portfolio management teams. He co-manages the Absolute Return Bond, the Investment Grade Bond and the Global Short Dated Climate Transition strategies. Prior to his current role, Rory was a vice president in credit sales at Goldman Sachs. In addition, he has also worked in credit sales for Morgan Stanley and in fixed income sales for Merrill Lynch. He has extensive experience working with both cash bonds and derivative products across the full ratings spectrum. He has been in the industry since 1998 and started with Aegon AM in 2016. Rory received his honours degree in Law with Accountancy from the University of Edinburgh
With a BSc and a MSc in Finance from Queen’s University, Belfast, in 1994 Stephen started his career at Aegon Asset Management (now Kames Capital) as a US equity analyst and fund manager. In 1998 he moved to fixed income, becoming manager of Kames’ Sterling Corporate Bond Fund in June 2000. Stephen then joined Old Mutual Asset Managers and managed their Corporate Bond Fund from 2004 – 2011, when he returned to Kames. There, as co-head of fixed income, he was co-manager of the Kames Investment Grade Bond Fund, the Investment Grade Global Bond Fund and the Absolute Return Bond Fund until November 2018. In May 2019 Stephen joined Artemis as a partner, to lead our fixed income team.
