F&C

Asset managers have revealed the hard limits they are imposing on entertainment budgets ahead of a potential FCA ban on corporate hospitality

F&C's Hewitt: We avoid trusts that are too aggressively geared

F&C Investments has hired RWC's John Bennett as head of wholesale institutions as part of a move to rebuild its distribution team.

Back from the brink: A whistle-stop tour of emerging market debt

Friends Life is to pull a further £15bn of assets from F&C Asset Management by the end of the year, as it awards several mandates to a new investment manager.

F&C Asset Management has warned it faces "signicant" short term headwinds following the loss of its strategic partnerships, as it urged shareholders to approve a £700m takeover deal.

Fund buyers are increasing their exposure to absolute return equity funds to take advantage of sharp falls by companies which miss earnings estimates.

Jeremy Tigue is to step down from the £2.4bn Foreign & Colonial trust as he prepares to retire at the end of the year.

The new year brought a swing back to bond funds

Alain Grisay, the former chief executive of F&C Asset Management, has passed away.