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...That’s pretty much by design, since investors’ “potential upside is capped at the strike price plus the call premium,” said Morningstar analyst Lan Anh Tran....
...“Stitching together Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management in 2017” created a Frankenstein’s monster....
...And Lex weighed in too, labelling the group — formed by the merger between Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life in 2017 — the Frankenstein’s monster of fund management....
...This week, we ushered in Ryanair, brewed it a nice cup of tea and invited it to make itself at home alongside fellow old-timers such as the Royal Mint (est. 886AD) and Aberdeen’s Shore Porters (founded 525...
...The deal brings Wood into partnership with veteran dealmaker Martin Gilbert, former chair of Aberdeen Standard Investments, whose company AssetCo previously owned Rize....
...figures US: September retail sales figures Results: Albertsons Q2, Bank of America Q3, Bank of New York Mellon Q3, Bellway FY, Ericsson Q3, Goldman Sachs Q3, JB Hunt Q3, Johnson & Johnson Q3, Jupiter Fund...
...“International [ie non-US] stocks as a whole have substantially underperformed for the better part of the past decade-plus....
...Most of the outflows can be traced back to the 2017 tie-up between Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management....
...Plus some ill winds blowing off our waterways. ‘Oh NO, Jeremy Corbyn!’ Could Sir Keir Starmer turn out to possess that most potent of political advantages, good luck?...
...The company now has £9.6bn under management — a small fraction of the £464bn Standard Life Aberdeen had when Gilbert left.But acquisitive habits die hard....
...Has the swirling property crisis plus the government crackdown on tech altered the calculus for investing in China?...
...Smart reads Take two Standard Life Aberdeen’s former chair Martin Gilbert has plotted an unlikely second act turning a cash shell into what he hopes will become an asset management empire....
...Pinsent Masons has appointed Bruce McLeod as a partner on its oil and gas team, based in its Aberdeen office. He previously spent eight years as a partner, then consultant, at Burness Paull....
...To switch they have to fund the training out of their own pocket to get the right certification, which often involves a lot of duplication....
...Standard Life Aberdeen’s switch to Abrdn in April, for example, was widely mocked on the Financial Times website. The FT’s Pilita Clark has even argued that corporate rebranding is a waste of time....
...EnQuest, the North Sea oil group, launched a placing and open offer to raise £36.1m to fund its recently announced acquisition of stakes in the Golden Eagle oilfield off the coast of Aberdeen....
...“Yields for these countries are pretty low considering what’s happened in US Treasuries,” said Kevin Daly, a fund manager at Aberdeen Standard Investments who participated in Monday’s sale....
...Aberdeen was the biggest fund manager accused of mis-selling. 2004 Aberdeen reaches a no-blame deal over the scandal with the City regulator and pays £78m in compensation. 2005 Acquires Deutsche Bank...
...Those flows, plus investment gains in its funds, lifted assets from $30.7bn at the end of last year to $55.7bn at the end of September. Assets have since grown to $62.2bn this month....
...“They are ‘lifestyle’ pension funds; putting the retirement date back means the pots won’t be moved so early into lower-risk funds,” Coaker explains....
...Confusion over when international travel might reopen has bounced Jet2 into tapping investors for new funds....
...Plus, the pandemic has also focused many people’s attention on the need for a long-term investment plan — this could be a helpful kick-starter....
...cent of the country’s local currency sovereign bond market as of March, according to data from the Institute of International Finance, ahead of the 2.6 per cent for India but well below the 20 per cent-plus...
...Ashmore, which got burnt by its $1bn-plus holding in defaulted Lebanese bonds, knows the risks as well as anyone. Still, emerging markets are a broad church....
...Dobson made the case for a regulatory rule book that was “better, more responsive and quicker” than the existing EU framework, while Sir Douglas told the panel that the UK needed to respond to the “dozen‑plus...
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