Gary Keese

KSAM is an active manager and is not tied to any ideology such as 'value' or 'growth'. Their investment approach to equities and fixed-income is active and the team aims to deliver a return exceeding the benchmark. Fund managers have broad specializations, and cover equities in all the major markets, UK gilts and index-linked bonds, international government and supranational bonds and UK and international corporate fixed-income securities. ^KSAM's specialist cash management team aims to deliver an optimized return in a low risk, liquid environment by using certificates of deposit, treasury bills, floating rate notes and short-dated gilts. The firm manages personal portfolios according to clients' ethical and financial criteria, and they also run two funds. The Ethical Balanced Income Fund is a cautiously managed ethical fund that generates income, and the Green Solutions Fund is a global fund that only invests in companies providing solutions to social and environmental challenges The firm offers a full range of fixed-income asset management services including government bonds, corporate bonds and index-linked securities over the full spectrum of maturities from cash to 50-year bonds. The firm has in-house ethical investment capability.