Kaketsis voted as No. 1 buy-side 'young gun'

Makis Kaketsis, the fund manager placed at the helm of the appropriately named top performing F&C UK Dynamic Fund less than a year and a half ago, has come first in a poll of City professionals designed to highlight the most talented up-and-coming buy-side talent.

Cantos, the provider of video communications to the investment community, have been running the "City Young Guns" series, a programme of on-line interviews, which grills ten young fund managers and buy-side analysts with questions compiled by an illustrious panel comprising Edward Bonham Carter, CEO of Jupiter, Hendrik Du Toit, CEO of Investec, and Bob Parker, Deputy Chairman of Credit Suisse Asset Management. The various brokers, bankers and traders who subscribe to the site have been able to vote for the individual who has most impressed them. This has resulted in a clear win for Kaketsis who, in a field of ten profiled rising stars from companies including Threadneedle, Investec and Schroders, took almost a third of all votes.

"I was very pleased to simply have been asked to feature in this series," said Makis Kaketsis, "so to have topped the poll was a nice surprise. I've been managing money since university but joining F&C a year and half ago as part of a team who had worked together at DWS, gave me the opportunity to manage a retail fund with which I can build a visible track record. It has been great fun so far and I look forward to the challenge of continuing to deliver market beating performance. Every day is different in fund management which is why I have no regrets about making it my career choice."