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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$551.0M
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Asset Managers
CEO & Executive Director
Alain GrisayNumber of Employees 869
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Portfolio Management: 523920
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Steer well clear of F&C Asset Management
- 2008-08-07
THE INVESTMENT COLUMN Our view: Sell Share price: 103p (-1p) TIMES ARE pretty tough for F&C Asset Management, the oldest investment firm in the UK. If having to tell the market yesterday that pre-tax profits in the last six months had dropped by...
F&C plagued by uncertainty.
- 2008-03-07
RESULT: F&C Asset Management faces an uncertain future after Friends Provident said it wants to ditch its stake. Jonas Crosland No sooner had F&C Asset Management started a three-year growth plan, than Friends Provident - which has a 52 per cent stake in...
Investors give Friends Provident restructure plan a rough reception
- 2008-02-01
Friends Provident finally unveiled its restructuring plan yesterday but the proposals immediately received a tough reception from investors who sent the life insurer's shares down to their lowest level for more than three years. The company, which is without a chief executive, effectively put its F&C Asset Management,...
Friends Provident boosted as F&C Asset Management moves into black
- 2007-08-07
F&C Asset Management moved into the black yesterday, boosting its majority shareholder Friends Provident as it battles to pull off an all share merger with Resolution Life. F&C has suffered from an outflow of funds and has not been able to report a profit since the group...
Pooled Funds - Tuning in to pooled funds.
- 2006-12-01
Byline: SG Pooled funds are going from strength to strength and bigger schemes are increasingly seeing them as a way of minimising costs and matching assets more closely with liability. Once the preserve of small to medium-sized schemes, they are gaining...
F&C basks in the glow of a buoyant third quarter for offerings.(F&C Asset Management)(Brief article)
- 2006-11-09
F&C Asset Management, the UK's fourth biggest fund manager, has announced it has received strong returns on its retail funds in the third quarter. It had AGBP120m gross inflows in the last quarter into retail funds and a AGBP59m outflow. This has secured a...
Chocks away! Belgian Spitfire pilot in a very British dogfight
- 2006-03-19
Heard the one about the Belgian, the American, the Portuguese and the South African? They ended up running one of the City's most traditional fund managers. A few years ago, Foreign & Colonial was the grand old home of establishment fusti-ness. A lunch at its Georgian offices...
THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Avoid F&C Asset Management for the more
- 2005-09-13
Large mergers of fund management houses very rarely turn out to be a success. Such is the importance of stability to both their managers and clients, that the unrest often prompts a period of poor performance followed by an exodus of clients " unwinding the gains from any potential synergies...
The week ahead: Wardrobes empty of profits as worn-out retailers see
- 2005-09-11
Retailers have had much to complain about lately, given a slowdown in consumer spending, falling prices and intense competition. But the outlook was brightened a little last month when the Bank of England cut interest rates. This week a number of the UK's largest retailers will release results and analysts...
Rates cut will flush out saving accounts -- F&C.(F&C Asset Management, interest rates)
- 2005-08-18
THE equity market is waiting with bated breath to see if the interest rate reduction will flush investors back into the sector. The Bank of England's decision to drop the interest rate to 4.5 per cent should cause consumers holding money in building society or...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Alain Grisay | CEO & Executive Director |
| David Logan | CFO & Executive Director |
| Andrew Lake | Director, High Yield |
| Christopher Jemmett | Senior Independent Director |
| Richard Nairn | Assoc Director, Private Equity Funds |
| Deborah James | Senior Manager, Communications |
| Hayley Frain | Manager, Communications |
| Irene Bell | Manager, Marketing |
| Alexis Krajeski | |
| Anna Krutikov | |
| Baroness Janet Whitaker | |
| Claudia Kruse | |
| Dr Robert Barrington | |
| Elizabeth Elliott | |
| Eve Crush | |
| Hilary Aldridge | |
| Ignacio Fravega | |
| Jeff Chowdhry | Head of Emerging Market Equities |
| John Bills | Head, Institutional Sales |
| Kirsty Jenkinson | |
| Kirsty Sargent | |
| Martin Smith | |
| Michel Bernard | |
| Mike Woodward | Deputy Head, Investment Trust |
| Mirza Baig | |
| Olivia Lankester | Senior Analyst |
| Sagarika Chatterjee | |
| Sheila M. Forbes | |
| Sir Crispin Tickell | |
| Sophie Horsfall | |
| Ted Scott | |
| Tony Stoller | |
| W. Marrack Tonkin | Secretary |
| Brian Sweetland | Member |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Nick MacAndrew | Chair of Board |
| Brian Larcombe | Board of Directors |
| David Kinloch | Board of Directors |
| Gerhard Roggemann | Board of Directors |
| Jeff Medlock | Board of Directors |
| John Heywood | Board of Directors |
| Karen McPherson | Board of Directors |
| Keith Bedell-Pearce | Board of Directors |
| Kieran Poynter | Board of Directors |
| Richard Singleton | Board of Directors |
| Roger Yates | Board of Directors |
| Trevor Matthews | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | CEO & Executive Director | Current |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | CFO & Executive Director | Current |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Director, High Yield | Current |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Director, High Yield | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Friends Provident Plc | Independent Director | Current |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Senior Independent Director | Current |
| European Assets Trust NV | Deputy Chairman | Current |
| Friends Provident Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Origo Sino-India Plc | Executive Member of the Board of Unilever Plc and Unilever N.V. | Current |
| Unilever | Regional Director | Former |
| Unilever N.V. | Board of Directors | Former |
| European Assets Trust NV | Board of Directors | Former |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Former |
| Unilever N.V. | Member | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Assoc Director, Private Equity Funds | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Senior Manager, Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Manager, Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Manager, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| The London School of Economics | MSc | Former |
| Barnard College, Columbia University | BA | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| Mount Holyoke College | MSc in Development Studies with special reference to Central Asia | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| Coreratings | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| British American Tobacco plc | Former | |
| HSBC Auto Finance | Former | |
| University of Oxford | Honours degree in History | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| Birmingham university | LLB in Law | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| San Francisco State University | MBA | Former |
Jeff is currently Head of Emerging Market Equities at F&C Asset Management plc, with overall responsibility for investments in global emerging markets. Previously, from 1997 to 2005, he was a director of Sun F&C Asset Management (India) Limited and also (until 1999) managed the Indian Investment Company SICAV, an open ended investment fund registered in Luxembourg. In 1994 he managed the India Fund Inc, a closed ended investment fund listed in New York that seeks long-term capital appreciation through investing primarily in Indian equities.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Head of Emerging Market Equities | Current |
| Alpha Tiger Property Trust Limited | Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Head, Institutional Sales | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| University of Edinburgh | MA in International History | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Deputy Head, Investment Trust | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| Brunel University | BSc in Economics and Business Finance | Former |
Olivia is a Senior Analyst in the Governance and SRI Team at F&C Asset Management plc. Prior to joining the team in 2001, Olivia was a strategy consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and has also worked for the UK Cabinet Office and the World Bank. Olivia is also a member of the UKSIF Board.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Senior Analyst | Current |
| Just Pensions | Board of Directors | Current |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | strategy consultant | Former |
| The World Bank | Former | |
| St John's College | MA in Modern History | Former |
| The London School of Economics | MSc in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| Uksif | Vice Chair | Current |
| University of Oxford | Diploma In Management Studies | Former |
| University of London | Msc In Development Studies | Former |
| University of Cambridge | BA In Social and Politicial Sciences | Former |
| University of Oxford | Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies | Former |
| University of Cambridge | Honours degree in Social and Political Sciences | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| Tribal Group Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| The British Library | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| United Nations | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current | |
| Exeter University | BA in Economics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Chair of Board | Current |
| Wates Group Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Fuller, Smith & Turner plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Schroders plc | Chief Financial Officer | Former |
| Schroders plc | Finance Director | Former |
| Save The Children | Chairman | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| European Assets Trust NV | Board of Directors | Current |
| Cutinova Hydro | Board of Directors | Current |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Negative Pressure Wound Therapy | Board of Directors | Current |
| Paste Bandages | Board of Directors | Current |
| Group Plc | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Chairman | Former |
Gerhard Roggemann is a Vice Chairman of Hawkpoint Partners Europe and is responsible for the development of Hawkpoint's German business, particularly in the Financial Services area. Gerhard has spent all his career in banking. Prior to joining Hawkpoint in 2004, he spent 12 years with JP Morgan in New York, Frankfurt and Tokyo in various Corporate Finance and Trading functions. Thereafter he served as a member on the Managing Boards of Norddeutsche Landesbank (for 5 years), and of Westdeutsche Landesbank (for 8 years). Gerhard is a Non-Executive Director of Deutsche Borse AG, GP Gunter Papenburg AG (construction - Chairman), Friends Provident plc (insurance) and F&C Asset Management plc. He is a member of the advisory boards of VHV Holding AG (insurance) and Swift Capital Partners (Private Equity).
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Friends Provident Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Hawkpoint Partners Limited | Vice Chairman | Current |
| Hawkpoint Partners Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Compliance LLC. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Norddeutsche Landesbank | Board Member | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| European Assets Trust NV | Board of Directors | Current |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
is a Solicitor, a Fellow of the Marketing Society and an Honorary Professor of the Warwick Business School, where he is also a member of the Board. He retired from Prudential plc at the end of 2001 after 30 years service, the last 10 of which was as an Executive Director. He is also Chairman of the Student Loans Company Ltd, Chairman of Directgov, Chairman of 4D Data Centres Ltd and a non-executive director of F&C Asset Management plc. Keith joined the Society?s Board in February 2001 and was appointed Chairman in May 2001. He is a member of the Remuneration and Risk Committees, Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a Trustee of the Society?s Pension and Life Assurance Scheme.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Student Loans Company Limited | Chairman | Current |
| European Assets Trust NV | Board of Directors | Current |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Norwich & Peterborough Building Society | Chairman | Former |
| Norwich & Peterborough Building Society | Board of Directors | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Swiss Bank Corp. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Friends Provident Plc | Founder | Current |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Member | Current |
| Friends Provident Plc | Executive Director | Former |
| Friends Provident Plc | Trustee | Former |
| Friends Provident Plc | Chairman | Former |
| F&C Asset Management Plc | Board of Directors | Former |
| Friends Provident Plc | Secretary | Former |
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