F&C Managed Portfolio Trust PLC Directorate Change (0445U)

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RNS Number : 0445U

F&C Managed Portfolio Trust PLC

09 July 2018

   To:       RNS 
   From:   F&C Managed Portfolio Trust plc 
   Date:    9 July 2018 
   LEI:      213800ZA6TW45NM9YY31 

F&C Managed Portfolio Trust plc ('the Company')

Directorate Change

Following a formal recruitment process, the Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan ('Sue') Inglis as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 9 July 2018.

Sue is a senior corporate financier in Cantor Fitzgerald's Investment Companies team, having previously been a Managing Director - Corporate Finance in the Investment Companies team at Canaccord Genuity until 2012. Sue is a qualified lawyer and was a partner and head of the funds and financial services group at Shepherd & Wedderburn, a leading Scottish law firm. In 1999 she was a founding partner of Intelli Corporate Finance, an advisory boutique firm focusing on the asset management and investment company sectors, which was acquired by Canaccord Genuity in 2009. Sue is currently the senior independent director of The Bankers Investment Trust PLC and a non-executive director of Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust plc.

Her appointment will be proposed to shareholders for election at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held on 19 September 2018.

Sue Inglis currently does not have an interest in any shares in the Company and there is no other information required to be disclosed pursuant to section 9.6.13R of the Listing Rules in relation to this appointment.

Richard Martin, Chairman of F&C Managed Portfolio Trust plc, commented:

We are delighted to welcome Sue as a Director of the Company and believe that her experience of investment trusts and her extensive knowledge of the industry, will contribute significantly to the Board'

For further information contact:

   Ian Ridge                                               Tel: [phone] 

F&C Investment Business Limited

Company Secretary

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