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Following its merger with Isis Asset Management in October 2004, F&C is sailing full steam ahead with its growth plans. Christopher Salih discovers if the company is ready to deliver long-term outperformance

F&C Asset Management has been a group in transition. Despite a 150-year lineage, the group has been in its current guise for just 18 months. Its merger with Isis Asset Management was only finalised in October 2004. ISIS itself has a relatively short history - Friends Ivory & Sime and Royal & Sun Alliance joined to form the group in 2002. So, it is of little surprise that the share price has been knocked about. The resulting company is certainly large and diverse - is it now in a position to deliver long-term investment outperformance? The re-modelled F&C Asset Management is a pan-European ...

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