Posts tagged: Standard Life

Cumming shakes up Aviva Investors on day one...

Tuesday, 2 January 2018, 6:27 pm

David Cumming isn't wasting any time.

The former Standard Life equities supremo has started his new role as chief investmne officer at Aviva Investors with a bit of a shake up. According to moles at the fund management of the insurance giant, Cumming declared after his first 58 minutes in his new job that the firm can't claim to be "global equity investor" if it is using delayed prices...

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Sunday review - Aberdeen Asset Management, Standard Life and Meggitt

Sunday, 5 March 2017, 5:26 pm

Unsurprisingly, the news about Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life's £11 billion merger dominated today's business sections in the British newspapers.

Hat tip, though, to the Kleinmanator of Sky News for breaking that story on Saturday afternoon - although Bryce Elder's mega scoop about Kraft Heinz's $150 billion takeover bid for Unilever on FT Alphaville from a few weeks ago will still take some beating...

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