The biggest deal in Scotland this year has put an old name back on the front foot, writes TERRY MURDEN Twenty years after it was demutualised and eight after it was ignominously booted out of its own parent company, Standard Life is once again a dominant force in Scotland’s financial services sector. It may not […]
Aberdeen Group
What’s in a name? For Abrdn, quite a lot
The decision to scrap the abrdn name is an admission of failure, but the board can focus on an improvement in performance, says TERRY MURDEN Abrdn is no more. Welcome to ‘aberdeen group’, the new name of the asset manager, its third in just over seven years. It may have lost a lot of value […]