Edinburgh asset management giant Abrdn has added its voice to a growing number of UK corporate bond managers with concerns about the current and unprecedented private equity…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Abrdn has confirmed it is in talks to buy Manchester-based online broker Interactive Investor, with analysts speculating the price could reach £1.5 billion….

Edinburgh-based investment giant Abrdn has made three major appointments to its real assets team to support its ambitious growth agenda. Abrdn oversees £532 billion of assets including £50…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Abrdn has announced a target to reduce the carbon intensity of its assets by 50% by 2030 versus a 2019 baseline. Abrdn…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Abrdn said on Friday it has acquired the “investing insights” and personal finance news platform Finimize. Finimize CEO Max Rofagha will join…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant abrdn announced it has agreed as a member of a bondholder committee to a restructuring of $530 million of “superbonds” due…

Edinburgh-based investment giant abrdn said on Wednesday it sold another 5% of HDFC Asset Management Company Limited in India to raise £268 million. The money…

Martin Gilbert’s fast-growing investment firm AssetCo plc has announced that former Standard Life Aberdeen executive Campbell Fleming will join its board of directors and take…

Edinburgh investment management giant abrdn has the highest percentage of women as fund managers amongst major global asset management companies with 100 managers or more….

Wealth management firm Quilter plc announced the appointment of David Tiller as its commercial and propositions director as it continues the development and growth of…

American Century Investments, the $245 billion investment manager, has hired the portfolio management team responsible for Aberdeen Standard Investments’ total return bond strategy. The team…

The £460 million Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust (SLIPIT) has announced the acquisition of land in the Cairngorms National Park that will be used…

Edinburgh investment giants abrdn and Baillie Gifford are among 125 firms that have been endorsed under the UK’s tougher stewardship and best practice code to…

Edinburgh investment firm abrdn has declined to comment on reports in the London trade press that it is planning to establish a new London headquarters…

A manager of the Asia Pacific focused £410 million Aberdeen New Dawn Investment Trust plc has said that “capitalism is not dead in China” despite a regulatory…

Aberdeen Standard Investments’ veteran Asia chairman Hugh Young told Bloomberg in an interview the Edinburgh-based asset management giant is sticking with its big China investments…

Aberdeen Standard Investments’ Pan-European Residential Property Fund (ASPER) said on Monday it has exceeded €1 billion of committed equity. ASPER is an open-ended fund designed…

A top executive at Edinburgh-based investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments said cryptocurrency is still the “wild west” in terms of regulation and consumer protection and “still feels…

Rebranded Edinburgh-based asset management giant abrdn on Tuesday posted a 52% increase in adjusted operating profit to £160 million for the first half of 2021…

Edinburgh-based investment giant abrdn announced that former State Street executive Hannah Grove will be appointed a non-executive director of the asset management group on September…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant abrdn on Wednesday outlined a new structure for its investment management team amid the decision by Rod Paris to retire as…

The Aberdeen Standard European Logistics Income plc fund (ASLI) announced the acquisition of an urban logistics warehouse near Barcelona in Catalonia. “The purchase price of…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen announced on Monday that it has been officially renamed abrdn plc. The company’s stock market ticker was changed from…

Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA), currently changing its name to Abrdn, has announced the appointment of Tracey Hahn as its Chief People Officer. Hahn will report…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen said on Tuesday it expects that working from home (WFH) and hybrid working are likely to be “lasting” features…

Edinburgh-based Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) — currently changing its name to Abrdn — has announced the appointment of Caroline Connellan as chief executive officer of Personal…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant Standard Life Aberdeen plc announced on Monday its intention to change its name to “Abrdn plc” — a move that will…

The UK’s central bank on Thursday announced its biggest interest rate hike in 27 years and warned the UK is heading for more than a year…

Latest data from Abrdn-owned Interactive Investor (ii), the UK’s second-largest investment platform for private investors, shows a significant jump in voting on AGM shareholder resolutions in…

The UK’s central bank raised interest rates for a fifth straight meeting on Thursday and sent a strong message it is prepared to make larger…

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust once again retained its title as the most-popular investment trust among Interactive Investor customers in May, despite the fund’s high-flying share price…

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has admitted it made a “mistake” in reducing its holdings of western online platform companies rather than their Chinese counterparts as…

Baillie Gifford’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has lost its position as the largest UK investment trust by stock market value amid the brutal sell-off in…

Closed life and pension fund consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings plc, owner of the “old” Standard Life Assurance, announced the appointment of entrepreneur Maggie Semple as an…

Abrdn-owned investment platform Interactive Investor said it has hired Santander executive Saj Arshad as Chief Commercial Officer. “Saj brings a strong track record of driving business…

The UK central bank on Thursday raised interest rates to their highest since 2009 — hiking borrowing costs by a quarter-point to 1% to fight…

Abrdn’s investment platform Interactive Investor announced that the number of customers investing through its “regular investing” service rose by 19% in the first quarter of the…

A number of high flying funds and investment trusts managed by Edinburgh investment giant Baillie Gifford came back down to earth with a bang in…

Edinburgh has maintained its place as a leading international financial centre in the latest Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), placing seventh in Western Europe, second…

UK finance minister Rishi Sunak announced tax cuts for workers and a reduction in fuel duty on Wednesday in his half-yearly budget update. Sunak set out…

Abrdn’s £1 billion Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE) will be promoted to the FTSE 250, from the FTSE UK Small Cap index, following the…

The US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point in the first increase since 2018 — and…

Closed life and pension fund consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings plc reported record cash generation of £1.717 billion for 2021, exceeding its annual target range of £1.5…

ISA investors have kept faith in Baillie Gifford and its flagship fund Scottish Mortgage despite the turbulent start to 2022 for stock markets and the…

London-based asset manager Schroders plc said on Thursday its 2021 profit before tax rose 25% to £764.1 million and its assets under management (AUM) increased by 10% to…

Martin Gilbert’s fast-growing investment firm AssetCo plc has reached agreement to acquire Edinburgh-based Revera Asset Management Limited for about £2.8 million in shares and cash. The…

Baillie Gifford has ranked first in the 2022 FE fundinfo Alpha Manager List with a total of 13 of its fund managers making the prestigious…

The value of mergers, acquisitions and share deals involving Scottish registered corporates soared from £4.9 billion in 2020 to £16.4 billion in 2021, according to…

Newton Investment Management, part of BNY Mellon Investment Management, announced it hired veteran Scottish fund manager David Cumming and Abrdn portfolio manager Georgina Cooper for its…

Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, said it has concluded a £1.7 billion bulk purchase annuity (BPA) transaction covering all members of the Gallaher Pension…

Martin Gilbert’s investment firm AssetCo plc has been given another extension to the deadline by which it must make an offer for fund manager River and…

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Financial Enterprise chair Philip Grant are to co-chair a “refocussed” national board to “ensure the crucial role of financial…

Premier Miton Group announced it has withdrawn from acquisition discussions with the board of fund manager River and Mercantile Group (RMG). This leaves Martin Gilbert’s investment firm AssetCo…

Reinsurance giant Swiss Re has sold its remaining 6.6% shareholding in closed life and pension fund consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings by selling 66,199,917 ordinary shares…

Merrill Lynch International (BofA Securities) said on Tuesday it has been appointed by Swiss Re as sole bookrunner for a proposed secondary sale of approximately…

Closed life and pension fund consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings plc, owner of the “old” Standard Life Assurance, announced that it completed four Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA)…

The UK’s Takeover Panel has extended the deadline to January 18 by which Martin Gilbert’s investment firm AssetCo plc and rival suitor Premier Miton Group…

Martin Gilbert’s investment firm AssetCo plc is one of two companies that have made preliminary bid approaches for fund manager River and Mercantile Group (RMG),…

Edinburgh-based asset management advisory firm Devlin Mambo have announced the appointment of Andrew Milligan to the position of board advisor. Milligan is the former Head of…

Wealth management is enjoying a jobs boom in Scotland, with a number of UK-wide firms setting up hubs in Scotland with experts predicting that more…