Thinc and F&C in distribution deal

Thinc, with over 250,000 active clients and £2bn worth of funds under advice, will use the F&C Lifestyle range as its active managed investment solution across its expanding client base. F&C says its four recently launched F&C Lifestyle funds – Defensive, Cautious, Balanced and Growth - are multi-manager portfolios which provide an asset mix “tailored to fit the risk and return profile of specific categories of retail investor”. It says the portfolios are designed to match the asset allocations derived from a third-party risk profiling tool with the underlying funds selected by F&C's mult...