Important Legal and Regulatory Information
This website (“F&C Group Website”) is operated by F&C Management Limited for and on behalf of the F&C group of companies (“F&C Group”).
The F&C Group Website provides information about asset management activities and investment products and services provided by the F&C Group.
This legal and regulatory information can be accessed throughout the site by clicking on the legal link at the bottom of every screen. It provides access to important information about the purpose and status of the information being provided on the F&C Group Website. This includes details of legal and regulatory disclosures and warnings that are designed to inform and protect investors and potential investors. You should read this information if you are unclear at any time as to the purposes of this website. By proceeding to view other areas of this website, you are deemed to have read and understood this legal information and to have had notice of the disclosures and warnings contained herein.
Use of Information
We will treat any personal details that you may submit via this website as confidential and shall process and store such details at all times in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 in the United Kingdom and any legal requirements concerning data protection in other jurisdictions in which the F&C Group operates. No information will be passed to another party other than where you have indicated your consent to the passing of your data to other members of the F&C Group or investment trusts managed by members of the F&C Group for customer administration and/or marketing purposes or unless we are legally obliged to do so.
Disclosures
You will, in the process of completing your personal details when registering to have access to certain sections of this website, be asked to indicate your consent or otherwise to members of the F&C Group writing, telephoning, faxing or e-mailing you to give you information about products and services which may be of interest to you. If you indicate your consent at this time, you may at any time thereafter advise us in writing or by email that you no longer wish to be contacted about such products and services.
Use of Cookies
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External Websites
This website may contain links to other websites operated and controlled by parties other than members of the F&C Group. Such links are provided for your convenience only and their inclusion does not imply any endorsement of material on such websites or any association with their operators. You use such links at your own risk and F&C Management Limited accepts no responsibility for any linked sites.
Important information
The information contained in this website is not intended to be an offer or solicitation to deal in investments in any way in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or distribution would be unlawful, including, but not limited to, the United States of America.
The F&C Group Website is organised into areas directed to particular countries in which members of the F&C Group provide investment services and to particular audiences, such as investment advisers and existing or potential customers for particular investment products or services of the F&C Group. All users should only access information relevant to themselves through the appropriate part of the website. Private investors will find the regulatory disclosures and information and warnings appropriate to themselves in the private investor areas of the website.
The site may include information about unit trusts, open-ended investment companies, investment trusts and venture capital trusts and similar funds managed or operated by the F&C Group and about associated investment plans. Applications in respect of units or shares in any such investment vehicles may only be made on the basis of the current, relevant scheme particulars, offering documentation or prospectus and on the basis of the terms and conditions of any applicable investment plan. The relevant part of the website will include details as to how this information may be obtained.
The members of the F&C Group only provide information about their own products and services and do not give investment advice based on individual circumstances. Persons requiring investment advice should consult an appropriate adviser.
The information provided in this website is believed to be accurate at the date first published to the best of F&C Management Limited’s knowledge. However, no warranty or representation is given as to its accuracy or completeness or that it is up to date, secure, operate without error or that it will be free from viruses or other harmful elements. It may be changed without notice. Any research or analysis used in this website has been procured by the members of the F&C Group for their own use and may have been acted upon for F&C Group’s own purposes.
F&C Management Limited reserves the right to grant access or revoke the authority to access, use or reproduce the contents of the F&C Group Website at its absolute discretion. While reasonable care is taken to ensure the accuracy, completeness and security of information available through the F&C Group Website, F&C Management Limited does not accept responsibility for the consequence of any use of the F&C Group Website by any user, whether authorised or unauthorised.
Summary Information regarding F&C’s Conflict of Interest Policy
The F&C Asset Management Group (F&C Group or we) provides a wide range of investment services. As such, the F&C Group, its associates and companies within the F&C Group may from time to time have interests which conflict with clients’ interests or with duties owed to clients.
We are committed to fair dealing and integrity in everything that we do. If we do not act in our clients best interests, we run the risk that our clients will go elsewhere. Consequently our interests are closely aligned to that of our clients.
Conflicts of interest may arise where the corporate, commercial, personal interests or loyalties of the F&C Group, companies within the F&C Group, shareholders, senior management or employees on the one hand conflict with the interests of clients on the other or, where the interests of one client conflicts with the interests of another client.
We have established procedures designed to identify, mitigate and manage any such conflicts. These include organisational and administrative arrangements and controls designed to safeguard the interests of clients.
In some instances, our procedures and controls may not be sufficient to ensure that a potential conflict of interest does not damage a client’s interests. In these circumstances, we may consider it appropriate to disclose the potential conflict to the client. We may also decline to act in any circumstance where there is a residual risk of damage to the interests of any client.
F&C Management Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (Reference No.119230) (www.fsa.gov.uk). It is registered in England and Wales (Company Registration No. 517895). Registered address and Head Office: Exchange House, Primrose Street, London EC2A 2NY. F&C Asset Management plc is the ultimate listed holding company of the F&C Group of which F&C Management Limited is a member. The F&C Group contains a number of UK regulated subsidiary companies, which are as follows:
| Firm Name | Company No. | Registered Office* | FSA Number |
| F&C Management Limited** | 517895 | Ex House | 119230 |
| F&C Managed Pension Funds Limited | 1020044 | Ex House | 110415 |
| F&C Emerging Markets Limited | 2149485 | Ex House | 134654 |
| F&C Managers Limited | 02219464 | Ex House | 121980 |
| F&C Asset Managers Limited | 2550699 | Ex House | 148926 |
| ISIS Investment Manager plc | 01939929 | Ex House | 119291 |
| F&C Fund Management Limited | 02170242 | Ex House | 121940 |
| F&C Investment Business Limited | SC151198 | George St | 177896 |
| F&C Partners LLP | OC308789 | Ex House | 409082 |
| F&C Property Asset Management plc | 1133893 | Ex House | 119283 |
| Friends Provident Unit Trust Managers Limited | 970641 | Ex House | 119233 |
*Ex House denotes Exchange House, Primrose Street, London EC2A 2NY and George Street denotes 80 George Street,Edinburgh EH2 3BU
** F&C Management Limited is also registered as investment advisor in the US by the SEC, CRD number 111598.
The F&C Group also contains a number of overseas regulated subsidiary companies: F&C Ireland Limited, registered in Dublin, which is regulated by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority under the Investment Intermediaries Act 1995; F&C Netherlands B.V., registered in Amsterdam, which is regulated by The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiele Markten; the “AFM”) and the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank; “DNB”); and, F&C Portugal, registered in Lisbon, which is regulated by the Banco de Portugal and by the Comissao do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (“CMVM”).
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