Operations
The Company's investments include key asset classes such as equities, bonds, cash and property – as well as alternative and specialist sectors such as socially responsible investment, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds and private equity funds.
Although many financial services companies sell insurance or banking products, F&C is dedicated to asset management. The company’s clients include retail investors, financial advisers, and large institutional investors such as public authorities and charities. The Company has offices throughout the world, and has more than three million private and corporate clients on whose behalf, as at 31 March 2010, it managed over £101.5 billion of assets.
Assets are managed from three principal investment centres: London, Amsterdam and Edinburgh. The Company has an office network spanning ten countries: China (Hong Kong), France (Paris), Germany (Frankfurt), Ireland (Dublin), The Netherlands (Amsterdam), Portugal (Lisbon), Sweden (Stockholm), Switzerland (Geneva), UK (London, Edinburgh and Dorking) and the US (Boston).
In 2007, 2008 and 2009 the Company was a recipient of the Gold Standard Awards which are designed to help restore consumer confidence in financial services.
F&C was the official sponsor of Birmingham City F.C.
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