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
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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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 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
Mother of a British soldier killed in Iraq broke down in tears as she called for former prime minister Tony Blair to be held to account for the 'unlawful' conflict in Iraq... 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
Gordon Brown ruled that an official inquiry into the Iraq war will be held in secret — sparking an outcry from families of the 179 British personnel killed... 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
This Sunday Prince Charles will be at the
70th anniversary celebrations of the rescue of 10,000 children from Nazi Germany. Here one of them tells his extraordinary story ... 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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