Asset Management

GAM sacks star bond manager Haywood for gross misconduct

Swiss investment manager has reported a big loss for 2018, a year in which its assets and shares tanked

GAM, the Swiss fund manager, has sacked the star bond manager at the centre of a storm that caused both its share price and assets under management to plummet in 2018.

The Zurich-headquartered group has dismissed Tim Haywood, the investment director it suspended in July 2018 while it investigated a breach of internal policies, it said in a full-year results statement on February 21.

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