Aberdeen Asset Management
Which UK wealth manager is the best value play?
SJP, Quilter and Rathbones have racked up double-digit returns this year. But analysts still believe they have further to go
Aberdeen bleeds £500m as it fails to stem outflows
Chief executive Jason Windsor hails ‘good progress’ as redemptions fall 50% year-on-year, but the fund giant still has to convince investors
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Schroders’ watershed tie-up and Aberdeen’s Phoenix blow: Asset management this week
Catch up on all this week’s asset management news
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Aberdeen sells financial planning business to Ascot Lloyd
Deal will help streamline the £518bn fund group
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Aberdeen, Polar Capital signal ‘turning point for Europe’ in wake of US tariffs
Investors echo recent comments from BlackRock CEO Larry Fink that Europe could emerge as a ‘better destination for capital’
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Inside Aberdeen’s turnaround plan: ‘Something had to change and it has’
It has been six months since Jason Windsor took over as CEO. Can he revive the fortunes of the UK-listed asset manager?
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Aberdeen Standard and Gresham House team up for small-cap truffle hunt
The two asset managers believe Mifid II’s unbundling rules have created opportunities to snap up smaller, ‘unloved’ companies
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Investors give Persimmon a bloody nose over ‘grossly excessive’ pay
Despite reductions, Aberdeen Standard Investment and the Church of England remain outraged by home builder’s executive packages
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In Pictures: Property of the Week — A designer’s Notting Hill home for £3.6m
This townhouse is home to an interior designer whose celebrity clients include Elton John and Mick Jagger
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Gilbert and Skeoch will run Standard Life Aberdeen for ‘another 10 years’
Comments from co-chief executive hold implications for generation of talent brought together by the merger
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LSE, Aberdeen and EY join Hammond in Brazil
Government draws attention to South American trip, against the backdrop of City concerns over Brexit
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Trading Places: Aberdeen, Stockdale, BTIG and more…
Comings and goings in the City and beyond in the week of July 17
Aberdeen and Credit Suisse veterans team up for multi-manager platform
Long-standing colleagues of Martin Gilbert launch new venture to invest in asset management companies
Standard Life joins Aberdeen at wrong end of fund sales table
Continuing withdrawals from struggling GARS raise questions for Standard Life in the retail funds market
Martin Gilbert: Change is the ‘only option’ after FCA report card
Fund managers have a lot on their plate already with Brexit and Mifid II, but those that do not adapt will fall away
Standard Life and Aberdeen risk undermining their efforts on gender diversity
With just one woman on a combined 12-strong investment committee, lobby groups have turned on the firms that have so often promoted their cause
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Competition regulator clears Standard Life Aberdeen deal
The two firms also received shareholder backing for their merger this week, putting them on track for completion in August
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Standard Life Aberdeen picks its investment leaders
Shareholders this week voted overwhelmingly in favour of the companies' multibillion-pound merger
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Standard Life and Aberdeen shareholders back merger
Deal will create an investment powerhouse with around 9,000 employees and £660bn under management
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Martin Gilbert: Already time to move on from election result
The asset management sector cannot afford to dwell on the outcome - it has bigger fish to fry
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