F&C stock slides as Dawnay Day is seen cashing out

F&C Asset Management stock slid 29% yesterday after traders said its second-largest shareholder, stockbrokers Dawnay Day, had sharply reduced its holding through a share placing.

Dow Jones Newswires reports that Dawnay Day declined to comment, but a placing of 94 million shares by Kaupthing Bank was widely thought to have been initiated on behalf of the London-based investment firm.

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