An insight into Standard Life Aberdeen’s young Abu Dhabi office
By Mark Battersby, 7 Mar 18
One of the youngest international offices in the merged Standard Life Aberdeen Group was set up by Aberdeen Asset Management in late 2016, before two businesses combined.
How is the Aberdeen Standard name and associated merger going down in the marketplace?
Aberdeen Standard Investments, we have not come across any negative view because we have been merging with Standard Life. We are not as active in the advisory market as many, whether that will be an impact, but certainly, everyone we have spoken to has been very positive.
Though there are a few people who understandably want to wait until there is full certainty on investment teams.
They can understand the strategic rationale that as an active manager you want to increase your size to get scale. They can see the strengths of Standard Life in developed markets, while we are in emerging. That scale gives you a more complete organisation.
Our UK property businesses are both very strong, and together, we are in a market-leading position and the second largest asset active manager in Europe.
