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		<title><![CDATA[Steer well clear of F&C Asset Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20080807/ai_n27978132]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[F&C plagued by uncertainty.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5986/is_200803/ai_n25291761]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Investors give Friends Provident restructure plan a rough reception]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Friends Provident boosted as F&C Asset Management moves into black]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pooled Funds - Tuning in to pooled funds.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[F&C basks in the glow of a buoyant third quarter for offerings.(F&C Asset Management)(Brief article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chocks away! Belgian Spitfire pilot in a very British dogfight]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Avoid F&C Asset Management for the more]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050913/ai_n15365770]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The week ahead: Wardrobes empty of profits as worn-out retailers see]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rates cut will flush out saving accounts -- F&C.(F&C Asset Management, interest rates)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5929/is_200508/ai_n23828150]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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