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...Chief executive Stephen Bird is attempting to revive the company’s fortunes by cutting costs and axing 500 jobs — amounting to 10 per cent of its workforce — while launching new products to attract other...
...Bird acquired consumer investment platform Interactive Investor for £1.5bn in 2021 in an attempt to diversify the asset management business....
...Bird has restructured the business, merging or closing some 120 funds, and is seeking to offload its private equity arm, which runs about £14bn....
...But Bird is now seeking to grow the company and help steer it through another potentially volatile year for markets. Bird said Branner is a “top-class investor”....
...Stephen Bird was brimming with ideas when he became Abrdn chief executive in September 2020....
...Bird told investors in August that he would “continue to return capital in excess of business needs as further stake sales are realised”....
...Slater, collected by TV cook Nigella Lawson, fashion designer Christopher Bailey and Vogue editor Anna Wintour and included in group shows in galleries such as Make, Hauser & Wirth Somerset and Joanna Bird...
...Now he is back, reteaming with screenwriter Tony McNamara and star Emma Stone for the even more outlandish and wildly enjoyable Poor Things....
...In this analysis, Emma Dunkley and Sally Hickey explore how now, three-and-a-half years later, Bird is facing difficult questions about his own future....
...The designer duo’s Le Cocodoll bed – essentially an egg-like bird body with large bronze feet – once graced the apartment of French decorator Jacques Grange....
...Bird’s total pay was $8.5mn last year, including $6.6mn that was performance-linked....
...Stephen Bird, chief executive of FTSE 100 fund manager Abrdn, said: “The average Brit has an underfunded pension . . . In truth, unless you set targets and measure against them, it won’t happen.”...
...I was quite taken with a staggeringly expensive pair of binoculars that can identify birds, but overall two points emerge....
...From further back in time, Finch & Co will be showing 23 watercolours of exotic birds and creatures by the pioneering British artist Sarah Stone (1760-1844), who turned the genteel ladies’ art of watercolour...
...I pair them up to make little stories: a bird and a guitar, or an amber doll and a piece of coral....
...Bird restructured the business, merging or closing 58 funds and appointing Peter Branner as chief investment officer....
...Bird, a former Citigroup executive, told the Financial Times: “We’ve got £1.3bn in stakes remaining....
...Bird, head of investment trusts research at Winterflood Securities....
...Emma Burns is joint managing director at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...‘Wintering’ might help you find your next job 🌨️ When I corresponded with Martha Bird on LinkedIn (about tattoos, initially — we are both ink fans), I saw that ADP’s former chief business anthropologist...
...Emma Bird, head of investment trusts research at Winterflood Securities, said investor scrutiny of private equity valuations was “entirely understandable” but some of the discounts were “excessive”....
...The Sunday Times also reported complaints of the behaviour at Abrdn under chief executive Stephen Bird, who took on the role in late 2020....
...In the wild there’s no one with a miracle spray, orchids take their nutrients from rainwater, bird poo and so on.”...
...Martens prey on game bird eggs and chicks when available....
...And like the oversized game birds in the mural behind them, the revellers look ripe for the plucking....
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