F&C

Laura Blows discovers how investors found cash a safe haven during the recent period of market volatility, and how this in turn affected the way cash is managed by investors

F&C shareholders have approved the company's proposed £53.6m takeover of Thames River.

The number of investors considering climate change policies as key to manager selection has doubled since 2007, but the actual integration of these policies into investment mandates has failed to take off, a report by the Institutional Investors Group...

EUROPE - The number of investors considering climate change policies as key to manager selection has doubled since 2007, but the actual integration of these policies into investment mandates has failed to take off, a report by the Institutional Investors...

About half of all UK pension schemes have adopted a liability driven investment strategy in the wake of volatile markets, F&C Investments says.

Directors of FTSE350 companies will face annual re-elections as part of the Financial Reporting Council's clampdown on corporate governance.

Pension schemes hedged £9.5bn of liabilities during the first quarter of this year, F&C Asset Management data reveals.

F&C Asset Management plans to acquire boutique fund group Thames River Capital in a deal worth up to £53.6m.

As interest in environmental and ethical issues grows, Laura Blows looks at the changing nature of SRI and the increasing use of ESG factors within a scheme's entire investment portfolio

AUSTRIA - UK-based F&C Asset Management has submitted a potential takeover bid for Austrian asset manager C-QUADRAT Investment.