BMO aligns F&C investment trusts to brand

BMO Real Estate Partners has aligned its two F&C branded property investment trusts to the BMO brand, after it received shareholder approval for the name change on May 30.

F&C Commercial Property Trust, a British investment trust, will now be named BMO Commercial Property Trust. It converted to a REIT on June 3. In addition, F&C Real Estate Investments Limited has also recently changed its name to BMO Real Estate Investments Limited. Shareholders approved the name change at its AGM in November 2018.

The changes follow the rebranding of the F&C Investments platform and savings schemes to BMO in 2018, and the renaming of several other investment trusts managed by BMO late last year, according to BMO. The two property trusts, which are widely held within BMO’s savings plans and through advisers and wealth managers, complete the transition of investment trust