Phoenix Group Holdings plc, owner of Standard Life, has announced its intention to explore a potential sale of its SunLife Limited business. SunLife is a…

Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, has appointed Andrew Pearson to the newly created role of Head of Financial Education and Communication. The move comes…

Aberdeen-based global engineering firm John Wood Group announced it has won a significant US life sciences project with GSK. “Wood has won an award valued…

Phoenix Group Holdings announced the acquisition of Sun Life UK, a closed book UK life insurance company, from Sun Life Financial Inc. for £248 million…

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…

Closed life and pension fund consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings plc, owner of the “old” Edinburgh-based Standard Life Assurance, said on Tuesday it agreed to sell Ark Life…

Former Aberdeen Standard Investments executives Alex Barr and James Witter have launched Bread Street Capital Partners Ltd, a new investment management business specialising in broadening investor…

Principal Global Investors has hired Åsa Norrie from Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) to be its European regional chief executive officer and head of distribution. Principal manages…

Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) has sold independent financial adviser (IFA) platform Parmenion to private equity firm Preservation Capital Partners in a £102 million deal. Parmenion…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said on Monday it has launched the Multi-Asset Climate Solutions (MACS) Fund in partnership with The Big Issue Group (TBIG). Aberdeen…

Aberdeen Standard Investment’s outlook commentary for 2021 says “sustainable higher yielding debt, selected global equity and selected real estate will become even more attractive” as…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said on Wednesday it will acquire 60% of Tritax Management LLP to strengthen the combined offering of both firms in the…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said on Thursday it has created a new platform that will allow investors to track a broad spectrum of “investable” hedge…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has this week announced a number of key appointments in its funds invested in smaller companies. Abby Glennie has been appointed…

Standard Life Aberdeen’s new CEO Stephen Bird is planning a big strategic shift for the active asset management giant by building a stable of passive…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has announced its intention to lift the temporary dealing suspension on its £1.6 billion Standard Life Investments UK Real Estate Fund and…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has launched the Aberdeen Standard SICAV I – Global Dynamic Dividend Fund to invest in a range of dividend-paying stocks across developed…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen has appointed Alex Hoctor-Duncan as the new global head of its £456 billion asset management business Aberdeen Standard Investments….

Edinburgh-based investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said on Monday it has launched a new Global Innovation Equity Fund “seeking to invest in companies with…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) indicated it is planning to increase its investments in private markets as it hired Mark Redman as its…

Aberdeen Standard Investments is to close its £526 million Global High Yield Bond fund because the fund’s largest institutional investor — Scottish Widows — is…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant Aberdeen Standard Investments said it is closing its underperforming ASI UK Recovery Equity Fund on October 22 after the fund’s largest…

By Mark McSherry Edinburgh-based asset management giant Aberdeen Standard Investments has written to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to warn that proposed new…

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust on Monday became the latest real estate investment trust (REIT) to slash its dividend amid pressure on rent collections. The…

By Mark McSherry Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said on Thursday that shares of its new US listed closed-end fund, Aberdeen Standard Global Infrastructure Income Fund…

One of Boohoo’s largest shareholders — Edinburgh-based asset management giant Standard Life Aberdeen — has sold most of its stake in the Manchester-based online fashion…

Investment firm Quilter said it hired Bambos Hambi from Aberdeen Standard Investments to be chief executive officer of Quilter Investors. London-based Quilter manages investments of…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said on Thursday that top-rated fund manager Harry Nimmo is returning to co-manage its global small cap strategy. Nimmo stepped down…

Shareholders of Standard Life Aberdeen have revolted against a proposal they feared could have allowed the Edinburgh-based fund management giant to replace annual general meetings…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant Standard Life Aberdeen said on Tuesday its assets under management and administration at April 30 stood at £490 billion, with estimated…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said on Wednesday it has launched a new fund “which seeks to harness the significant investment opportunities present within global mid-cap…

Edinburgh-based fund management giant Standard Life Aberdeen said on Friday it raised £237 million for “general corporate purposes” from the sale of shares in HDFC…

Aberdeen Standard Investments said on Wednesday that dealing has been suspended in the £1.7 billion Standard Life Investments UK Real Estate Fund and the £1.1…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant Standard Life Aberdeen said on Tuesday its assets under management and administration were £544.6 billion at December 31, 2019, down slightly…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) said on Wednesday that Trainline chairman Brian McBride will be appointed as a non-executive director of SLA with…

Edinburgh-based fund management giant Aberdeen Standard Investments announced the promotion of Andrew Paisley to Head of Smaller Companies amid a number of changes ahead of the…

Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc said on Tuesday that Peter McKellar, global head of private markets at Aberdeen Standard Investments, bought 135,000 shares in…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has appointed Aileen Mathieson as its new global head of insurance following the retirement of Stephen Acheson after 37 years of…

Closed life and pension fund consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings plc, owner of Edinburgh-based Standard Life Assurance, on Friday agreed to buy ReAssure, the British business…

Edinburgh-based fund management giant Standard Life Aberdeen said it plans to sell yet another portion of its stake in Indian financial group HDFC for as…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) private placement debt team has lent £65 million to the City of London Corporation. The investment was undertaken on behalf of…

UPDATE 3 — Closed life and pension fund consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings plc, owner of Edinburgh-based Standard Life Assurance, said on Friday its CEO Clive…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen said on Friday it has launched the latest stage of its massive share buyback programme. The latest stage involves buying…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen plc (SLA) said on Wednesday its assets under management and administration rose 5% to £577.5 billion in the first half…

Standard Life Aberdeen plc (SLA) on Wednesday announced details of its settlement with Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) and Scottish Widows in relation to arbitration proceedings…

Lloyds Banking‎ Group is to pay about £140 million to Standard Life Aberdeen to settle a legal fight over the future of a £100 billion…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said on Friday it has forged a strategic partnership with Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The partnership…

Aberdeen Standard Investments said it exchanged contracts to sell the central Edinburgh development that includes parent firm Standard Life Aberdeen’s HQ to German pension fund…

UPDATE 4 — Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) said on Tuesday it won a legal dispute to stop Scottish Widows parent Lloyds Banking…

UPDATE 4 — Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen plc unveiled a boardroom overhaul on Wednesday as it reported disappointing 2018 results that showed its…

Bahrain-based private equity firm Investcorp and Edinburgh-based investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) announced the appointment of Gerry Grimstone as chairman of its new joint…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments is close to agreeing a deal to sell its HQ at at 6 St Andrew Square in Edinburgh, according to a…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) said on Wednesday it intends to invest a further €2 billion in residential property by 2022. ASI is already…

Aberdeen Standard Investments said it has provided £65 million of debt to Anglian Water in the form of a privately negotiated green bond. The investment…

Edinburgh-based investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen late on Friday announced the completion of the sale of Standard Life Assurance Limited to Phoenix Group Holdings for a…

Edinburgh-based fund management giant Aberdeen Standard Investments said it has launched a new fund that utilises machine learning to identify sources of potential returns. The…

Edinburgh-based asset management giant Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) said on Tuesday its assets under management and administration slipped to £610.1 billion in the first half of 2018…

Aberdeen Standard Investments said its real estate team has now fully let the entire south side of St Andrew Square in Edinburgh. In a deal…

Aviva Investors said on Monday it hired eight fund managers from Standard Life Aberdeen to work in its new Edinburgh office. The new hires will…

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) and Phoenix Group announced they have established a private markets fund financing strategy “that is tailored to Phoenix’s financial objectives as…

Edinburgh-based fund management giant Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) has launched a contract dispute process against Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) over LBG’s decision to cancel a £109 billion…

Aberdeen Standard Investments said its infrastructure team has made a second investment in a gas pipeline and processing system. The team has acquired the InfraVia…

Standard Life Aberdeen plc said on Thursday it is “considering the potential for a substantial return of capital to shareholders” after it completes a deal to…

Aberdeen Standard Investments voted against the “enormous” remuneration packages for executives at York-based housebuilder Persimmon including a £75 million package for Persimmon CEO Jeff Fairburn at the…

Aberdeen Standard Investments said its infrastructure debt team has provided more than £43 million of private debt to finance six operational hydro-electric schemes in Scotland….

Standard Life Aberdeen’s head of distribution Campbell Fleming told Money Marketing in a wide-ranging interview that Standard Life Aberdeen is optimistic that it can hold on to the…

Aberdeen Standard Investments and European investment firm 21 Partners on Friday announced the establishment of a new UK based 50:50 joint venture (JV) – 21…

British insurer Phoenix Group Holdings is in advanced talks to buy Standard Life Aberdeen Plc’s insurance business for about £3 billion and a deal could…

UPDATE 4 — Shares of Edinburgh-based Standard Life Aberdeen fell about 5% after it was announced it will lose its biggest client. Lloyds Banking Group (LBG)…

Standard Life Aberdeen said assets under management at its fund management business Aberdeen Standard Investments fell £10.9 billion to £569.7 billion in the nine months to…