aberdeen inflows still show heavy reliance
Aberdeen Asset Management saw AUM grow £14.8bn in the six months to the end of March, as a strong showing from its equity products mitigated weaker appetite for its fixed income and multi-asset offerings.
Aberdeen Asset Management saw AUM grow £14.8bn in the six months to the end of March, as a strong showing from its equity products mitigated weaker appetite for its fixed income and multi-asset offerings.
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Aberdeen Asset Management’s Asia Pacific team, run by Hugh Young, has been given a vote of confidence by Witan Pacific Investment Trust, while Witan Pacific’s other existing manager, Nomura Asset Management UK, has been dropped.
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Aberdeen is unlikely to make a hostile bid to run Alliance Trust and if it did would almost certainly fail, according to investment company researcher at Numis Securities, Charles Cade.
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Aberdeen is to recommend to shareholders that it changes the investment mandate of its Edinburgh US Tracker Trust to allow it to be managed actively and generate income.
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Aberdeen AM has named Charles Macgregor as its new head of credit research, Asia Pacific.
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Aberdeen Asset Management is to take on the management of two Credit Suisse funds giving the firm its first foray into Brazil-specific fund management.
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Dividends are going to be harder to come by in the UK this year, according to Bruce Stout manager of the Murray International Trust, who predicts more cuts and fewer special dividends than in 2011.
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Aberdeen has changed the name of its multi-asset and multi-manager arm to Aberdeen Solutions to “better reflect the component strategies” and to appeal to intermediaries’ increased outsourcing of investment decisions.
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The news Aberdeen had soft closed its Emerging Markets Fund will have been met by some with dismay. But theres no point mourning an option no longer open to you, so where should you invest EM capital instead?
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It is not coincidence that the latest round of fund closures have concentrated on emerging market or Asian propositions, but is it down to market concerns or the lack of ability of the majority of fund managers?
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Aberdeen Asset Management has appointed Peter Elston to the newly-created role of head of Asia Pacific strategy & asset allocation.
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Aberdeen Asset Management has expanded its investment trust business and further strengthened its presence in Asia with the assumption of two closed-end funds from Blackstone Asia Advisers.
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