Fund management

Aberdeen's warpath

Name: Aberdeen's warpath
Uploaded: 2013-11-25T11:53:00.526Z
Duration: 5 min 26 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Aberdeen chief Martin Gilbert on job cuts and executional risks after acquiring Scottish Widows' fund business

Aberdeen Asset Management last week announced plans to acquire Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, catapulting the group past Schroders to become the biggest independent fund company in Europe. Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, discusses how he will tackle the risks posed by the deal.

November 25, 2013

Filmed by James Macdonald and Rod Fitzgerald. Produced by Petros Gioumpasis.