F&C Asset Management is a leading diversified multi-specialist investment management group with a heritage spanning more than 140 years. While many asset managers are owned by financial services conglomerates, such as banks or insurance companies, F&C is an independent group, listed on the London Stock Exchange, which is focused exclusively on managing money. Today the group operates from offices in eleven countries and manages £101.5 (€113.8)* billion of assets for a combination of insurance clients, institutional investors and private individuals which collectively represent 3 million underlying savers. * as at 31 March 2010