Aberdeen

Aberdeen Asset Management chief executive Martin Gilbert has met Google executives in a bid to better understand the technological challenges facing the fund industry, according to reports.

The ‘curry effect’

With the dollar at a five-year high against a basket of currencies, and further strength against sterling predicted, Investment Week asks wealth managers which funds they are using to play the trend.

The winners of Investment Week's Investment Company of the Year Awards 2014 were crowned at a ceremony in London on 25 November.

Aberdeen Asset Management today said outflows from its business had slowed significantly following a sustained period of redemptions, with the group also seeing better than expected flows from recent acquisition SWIP.

Shares in the largest Scottish companies, notably financials, helped power the FTSE 100 higher this morning after the results of the Scottish referendum revealed the country had voted to remain part of the UK.

Fund managers, economists, and currency traders waited with bated breath for the outcome of the historic referendum in which Scotland would decide its future - whether inside or outside the UK.

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Scottish fund managers have suffered outflows in recent months amid increased uncertainty over the outcome of the country's independence referendum.

The cyclicality of listed asset management businesses has been called into question as big names spring dividend surprises and attract the interest of UK equity income managers.