F&C Asset Management : BMO Global Asset Management continues European expansion with new Italian hire

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BMO Global Asset Management continues European expansion with new Italian hire

LONDON, November 17, 2015 - BMO Global Asset Management has further expanded its European distribution team with the appointment of Mr. Giampaolo Giannelli as Head of Sales - Italy, effective immediately.

Mr. Giannelli joins from Invesco Asset Management where he was Head of Italian Professional Investors; he was also responsible for the Greek market across wholesale and retail clients. Prior to this, Mr. Giannelli held roles across the Italian wholesale and retail markets as Sales Director at Fidelity International.

At BMO Global Asset Management, he is responsible for the distribution of the firm's products and strategies in Italy for both wholesale and institutional clients.

'We are pleased to welcome someone with Giampaolo's expertise to BMO Global Asset Management, as we continue our expansion across Europe,' said Georg Kyd- Rebenburg, Head of European Wholesale Distribution. 'It is great to be able to announce an addition to our European distribution team for another key market for the business. We are looking forward to working with Giampaolo to be able to offer our full range of capabilities and strategies to investors in Italy.'

About BMO Global Asset Management

BMO Global Asset Management is a global investment manager delivering service excellence from our four major investment centres in London, Toronto, Chicago and Hong Kong through 27 offices in 17 countries with more than US$244 billion in assets under management (31 July 2015). It includes a network of world-class boutique managers: BMO Real Estate Partners, LGM Investments, Monegy Inc., Pyrford International Ltd., and Taplin, Canida & Habacht LLC.

BMO Global Asset Management has been recognised by Pension & Investments as one of the world's largest 100 asset managers based on combined assets under management as of 31 December 2014 and is a signatory of the United Nations- supported Principles for Responsible Investment initiative (UN PRI).

It is part of BMO Financial Group (NYSE: BMO), founded in 1817 as the Bank of Montreal, a fully diversified financial services organisation and the 8th largest bank in

North America by assets with C$672 billion as of 31 July 2015 and more than 47,000 employees.

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