F&C is to launch an ex-UK version of its offshore European smaller companies fund for Sam Cosh.
Wealth managers are reducing their exposure to hedged share classes in their Japanese fund holdings, in the belief that further yen depreciation now looks less likely.
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Peter Lees has resigned from F&C, two months after handing over his UK equity fund to other managers.
Schroders' Alex Howe has joined F&C as sales director on its UK wholesale team.
F&C will launch an onshore version of its F&C Property Growth and Income fund this Friday.
The British Assets trust will be renamed BlackRock Income Strategies if proposals to overhaul the company are approved by shareholders.
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Former F&C fixed income manager Peter Geikie-Cobb has joined Charles Stanley as managing director of its Matterley fund business.