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Kenny Watson
Liontrust, Liontrust Global Funds plc
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Manager profile
Kenny Watson joined Liontrust in April 2017 after more than three years at Alliance Trust Investments. He is a Co-manager of the Liontrust Monthly Income Bond, Sustainable Future Corporate Bond Fund and GF Sustainable Future European Corporate Bond Fund. Prior to this, he worked for Ignis Asset Management for 15 years, specialising first in UK smaller companies, before moving to the fixed income team in 2004 where he was responsible for the sub-investment grade bond portfolios including the High Income Bond Fund. Prior to focusing on sub-investment grade bonds, he was part of the team managing investment grade life company mandates. He started his career at KPMG, after qualifying as a chartered accountant, before joining Murray Johnstone as a trainee fund manager in UK equities in 1994. Kenny has a BA in Accounting & Economics from the University of Strathclyde and is a chartered accountant.
Total return for Kenny Watson
Manager career performance
Rolling Alpha Quartile: Discrete three year periods
Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.
 
Quartile 1
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4
 
 
 
 
 
61-97m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
73-109m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
85-121m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
97-133m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
109-145m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Discrete calendar year performance : Kenny Watson

Manager career performance
Discrete performance
  0-12m 12-24m 24-36m 36-48m 48-60m 60-72m 72-84m 84-96m 96-108m 108-120m
Kenny Watson 7.8 3.6 -13.9 -1.7 5.5 7.3 -1.3 8.9 6.6 3.8
Peer Group Composite 6.6 3.3 -14.2 -1.7 7.1 7.8 -0.8 5.3 6.3 1.3
Over / Under 1.2 0.3 0.3 0.0 -1.6 -0.5 -0.5 3.6 0.3 2.5
Performance vs peer group composite: Kenny Watson
How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.
 
Overall markets
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Outperformed peer group composite
7 years
out of a possible 10
 
Overall markets
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Underperformed peer group composite
3 years
out of a possible 10
 
Rising markets
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Outperformed peer group composite
5 years
out of a possible 7
 
Falling markets
UpDown
Outperformed peer group composite
2 years
out of a possible 3
Funds currently managed
Fund Sole/Co-managed Sector Periods
Liontrust Sustainable Future Corporate Bond Co-managed IA Sterling Corporate Bond since Oct 01 2013 to present
Liontrust Sustainable Future Monthly Income Bond Co-managed IA Sterling Corporate Bond since Oct 01 2013 to present
Liontrust GF Sustainable Future European Corporate Bond Co-managed FO Fixed Int - EUR Corporate Bond since May 29 2018 to present
Funds managed previously
Fund Periods
Standard Life Investments Ignis High Income Bond since Dec 31 2008 to Oct 23 2015
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