It's not been the best week to chat to fund managers. Share prices have been shooting up and down faster than a vicar's nightshirt. Yet there remains something reassuring about talking to people who look after billions of pounds of your and my money when all about are panicking... more
Funds managed by Aberdeen Asset Management lost £8.1 billion thanks to market and currency volatility during July and August. But chief executive Martin Gilbert remains sanguine... more
Prada is set to be valued at a significant premium to its listed luxury rivals when the Italian fashion house floats in Hong Kong later this month... more
The first couple of months of the year have not been the easiest for fund managers, Martin Gilbert, admits the chief executive of £176 billion Aberdeen Asset Management... more
Aberdeen Asset Management is seeing an end to investors cashing in their investments in bond funds and "an encouraging uptick in new business".
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F&C Asset Management’s biggest shareholder, Sherborne, attacks the fund manager’s track record and calls on other investors to back its plan to remove the chairman and two other directors in favour of its own people... more
Aberdeen Asset Management’s pre-tax profits soar by 147%, boosted by record business inflows thanks to takeovers and growing demand for its emerging markets and equities funds... more
Aberdeen Asset Management’s German real estate unit is to liquidate the €1.3 billion (£1.15 billion) Degi Europa open fund it froze two years ago to prevent a glut of asset sales... more
Aberdeen Asset Management gets access to thousands of the world’s richest people who bank with Coutts by buying a chunk of RBS's asset management business... more
Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Britain’s largest independent fund management group Aberdeen Asset Management, does not believe the fall-out from Dubai will have a major lasting effect on his industry... more
Nicola Horlick, the one-time City superwoman, has sold the management contract on her only stock market-quoted fund to rival fund manager Aberdeen Asset Managers... more
Martin Gilbert today denied he was leading a consortium of Scottish businessmen in talks to buy The Scotsman newspaper, throwing fresh doubt over the future of the 192-year-old title ... more
Aberdeen Asset Management today revealed clients withdrew another £2.2 billion in the third quarter — taking the total net withdrawals up to £10.7 billion for the first nine months of the year ... more
Aberdeen Asset Management today said assets under management will rise by nearly Swfr63 billion (£35 billion) when it completes the £298 million purchase of Credit Suisse's asset management business ... more
Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, is on the lookout to snap up rival fund management groups during the current financial markets turmoil ... more
Investment: Hopes for a takeover of stricken New Star receded as potential bidder Aberdeen Asset Management bought Credit Suisse's UK asset management division for £250 million... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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