Directorate Change

F&C Global Smaller Companies PLC
16 August 2006



F&C Global Smaller Companies PLC

Directorate change



The Board is pleased to announce that Mr Leslie Gray Cullen has been appointed
as a non-executive director of the Company, to be effective from 1 September
2006.

Mr Cullen is an independent trustee and audit chairman of the British Telecom
Pension Scheme and a non-executive director of Sustrans Ltd, Interserve plc,
Avis Europe plc and DTZ Holdings plc.  He is an MBA and a Fellow of both the
Association of Certified Accountants and the Association of Corporate
Treasurers.  He has worked in the UK and overseas for a number of large public
companies, including being group finance director of Prudential plc and Inchcape
plc, and has been chairman of a number of private equity backed companies.

No information is required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13.





For F&C Management Limited

Secretary

16 August 2006


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