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...The beans are bought and sold at a premium or a discount to the benchmark known as “differentials”....
...C Howard Pearce is to chair the new Responsible Investment Advisory Council for F&C Investments from January 2015....
...● F&C Investments has added two directors to its €25.1bn global rates team. Sujay Shah joined from Goldman Sachs in July, while Paul Robinson joined in June from ICAP....
...Fidelity Worldwide Investment, Vanguard, Candriam, Aberdeen Asset Management, Invesco and F&C also declined to comment....
...● Royal London Asset Management has recruited Tracy Fennell as head of marketing and Louise Merritt as a product manager from F&C Asset Management....
...● Rob Geeraets is moving to Affiliated Managers Group as director, head of distribution, Benelux, from F&C Netherlands....
...●Also joining Jupiter is Robert Siddles, a US small-cap specialist portfolio manager who previously looked after £500m in assets at F&C....
...… Singing from the Floor: A History of British Folk Clubs, by JP Bean, Faber, RRP£17.99 Bean’s oral history of the British folk revival features participants both celebrated and obscure....
...McCormick, the spice maker and Heinz, best known in the UK for its baked beans both make more than 3 per cent of sales from the country, Bernstein estimates....
...Friends Life has £27.5bn of assets managed by F&C, equivalent to 27 per cent of the group’s total assets under management....
...● F&C Investments has added Jitzes Noorman to its fiduciary investment desk in Amsterdam and Peter Svoboda as a product specialist in its emerging market debt team....
...While last month’s shake-up at F&C has so far not affected the management of the UK’s third-largest investment company, which has more than £2bn ($3.2bn) under management, Mr Fraser will be keeping a “close...
...Natural gas was formerly a national or regional fuel....
...Related links: FDIC eyes bank pre-payments to plug deposit insurance gap – FT The FDIC’s ‘unknown and unknowable’ challenge – FT Alphaville An unfortunate media/F*&C up – FT Alphaville FDIC and the magical...
...Fatima Luis, manager of F&C’s Strategic Bond Fund, says: “Following the collapse of Lehman and the AIG bail-out, concerns over possible further bank failures persist and investors need to consider how comfortable...
...“This is honest-to-God his name … C-O-F-F-E-Y.” Coffey’s partner on the beat had been killed in a train accident three weeks earlier....
...Knights to F&C Bolstering the ranks at fund manager F&C, as it faces sale by its parent Friends Provident, the listed Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust has hired two knights for the board....
...How well do you feel the creative elite, like M&C, have responded to this democratisation of creativity?Jonathan Bean, New York Lord Saatchi: With pride....
...A girl known only as Little Fearless fights the powers-that-be at a state-run workhouse, with martyrdom the inevitable outcome....
...Known chiefly for its telenovelas, or soap operas, the network also offers news and soccer, as well as the longest-running show in prime time, “Sabado Gigante.”...
...Now F&C Asset Management, a shareholder in Home Depot, wants to know what it got the company....
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