Catherine Stanley is a Director and Head of the Global Small Cap Equity team. Since June 2009, Catherine has been Lead Manager of the F&C Responsible UK Equity Growth Fund and the F&C Responsible UK Equity Income Fund and in June 2013 the Global Small Cap Equity Fund was launched with Catherine as Lead. She joined the Group in 2000.

Prior to this Catherine spent nine years at Framlington, where she managed both retail and institutional UK smaller company funds. She has an MA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Oxford and is a member of the CFA Society of the UK.