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Aberdeen Asset Management takes funds' £8.1bn loss in its stride

26.09.11
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

Aberdeen's Gilbert upbeat on shares

03.05.11
Shares still represent the best investment bet, according to Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management... more

Kurt Cobain statue unveiled in Washington

07.04.11
A statue of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was unveiled in Aberdeen, Washington, 17 years to the day he took his own life... more

Aberdeen 'encouraged' despite year's slow start

28.03.11
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 is tipped for promotion after talk of a bounceback

18.03.11
Rumours that business has bounced back at Aberdeen Asset Management sent the fund manager's shares up 3% today... more

Aberdeen slows down outflows and picks up

20.01.11
Aberdeen Asset Management is seeing an end to investors cashing in their investments in bond funds and "an encouraging uptick in new business". ... more

The trains are just as bad after power line failure shuts the East Coast line

21.12.10
Tens of thousands of passengers were left stranded across the rail network today after a train brought down overhead power cables... more

Britain on flood alert as storms roll in

09.11.10
Parts of Britain were braced for flash flooding today as the latest severe bout of weather hit the country... more

Aberdeen Asset Management to liquidate £1bn German fund

22.10.10
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

BAA refinances debt to pay back £1.1bn loans

20.08.10
Heathrow and Stansted owner BAA cuts its interest bill after setting up a £625 million lending facility with eight banks... more

Airport workers vote over strike action in pay row

23.07.10
Thousands of workers at some of the country's biggest airports start voting on whether to strike over pay, threatening disruption before the end of the summer holidays... more

Waitrose shoppers get taste of Gourmet Burger Kitchen

16.07.10
Gourmet Burger Kitchen reckons its patties are so good they’ll be snapped up by supermarket shoppers wanting to cook them at home... more

Merrill Lynch tips four British banks despite coalition tax buzz

14.05.10
Market Round-up: A bank levy may be on the cards, but the four Britain-focused banks are still on one heavyweight broker’s shopping list... more

Wartime arsenal found in Walton-on-Thames house

11.05.10
Second World War weapons that belonged to a secret agent have been rehomed after being found while clearing out his former Walton-on-Thames home... more

Booming Aberdeen is unfazed by poll buzz

04.05.10
Aberdeen Asset Management chief says the City will carry on working even if the election results in a hung parliament... more

Aberdeen Asset Management gets rich pickings from RBS fund deal

08.01.10
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

Clients pull billions out of Aberdeen

27.07.09
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 boss Gilbert on the prowl to swallow up rivals

05.05.09
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

Service for dead in copter crash

15.04.09
Gordon Brown and Prince Charles will join hundreds of mourners at a memorial service for 16 men who died when their helicopter crashed in the North Sea... more

Sixteen are feared dead as helicopter ditches in North Sea

01.04.09
Up to 16 people were feared to have been killed after a helicopter accident in the North Sea... more

Helicopter crash oil workers 'in good spirits' after rescue

19.02.09
Oil workers whose helicopter crashed near a North Sea platform arrived at a port "in good spirits"... more

Baggage staff damaged jet and kept quiet

14.01.09
Two British Airways baggage handlers crashed a 10-ton truck into a jet due for take-off and failed to report it, an insider claimed... more

New Star blow as Aberdeen opts for Credit Suisse deal

31.12.08
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

Debt barrier to a bid by Aberdeen

01.12.08
Aberdeen Asset Management refuses to rule itself out of bidding for New Star... more

Japanese pay £100m for a stake in UK’s Aberdeen

02.10.08
Japan's largest bank became the latest raider of British financial institutions as it swept up 10% of Aberdeen Asset Management... more

Experts link male obesity to infertility

09.07.08
Men with beer bellies were today told to diet or risk never having children after experts found a direct link between obesity and male infertility... more

So-so Spanish food and so little service

04.07.07
Camino means 'path' in Spanish, but after an average standard of service and so-so food, you may not be beating one back... more


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