Tag Archives: Aberdeen

Whatever happened to the Standard Life?

Posted on February 12, 2021 by henry tapper

Life insurance companies are not in favour and haven’t been for some time. The consolidation of the sector around a few financial behemoths L&G, Aviva,  Royal London , Prudential , Quilter , Aegon , Just and LV= leaves no trace … Continue reading →

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Why I’m not at the PLSA conference today

Posted on October 18, 2017 by henry tapper

  I’m writing at 6am, soon I will be getting on a train to Manchester which will be full of people going to the PLSA Conference. I won’t be going to that Conference, instead I will be visiting Sage’s accountant support office … Continue reading →

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What’s Standard Aberdeen to the consumer?

Posted on March 6, 2017 by henry tapper

Whether the Standard Aberdeen deals goes ahead or not, it’s quite clear that active fund managers are feeling the pinch and that consolidation will follow. Here’s one commentator in the FT summing the deal up.  “The collective headwinds for the … Continue reading →

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#AMNTConf2016 vAAMConf – substance and swank!

Posted on November 23, 2016 by henry tapper

Yesterday, I flitted between Aberdeen’s swanky conference at the Bankers Hall in the City and the less swanky Association of Member Nominated Trustee’s conference at Holborn. Aberdeen’s afforded me plenty of insights and I’m grateful for the magnificent show they put … Continue reading →

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Activism over activity – we want effective asset management.

Posted on November 22, 2016 by henry tapper

Reading the FCA’s Asset Management Market Study, you’d be tempted to give up on active asset management (to be frank you might to give up on investment funds altogether). Daniel Godfrey has a piece in the FT claiming that the … Continue reading →

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“Search and Stewardship” – all that we want from asset managers

Posted on December 3, 2015 by henry tapper

  I spent yesterday morning listening to John Kay talk about the ideas behind his new book “Other people’s Money”. The big idea is that the UK asset management industry spends too much time talking to itself and not enough … Continue reading →

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“Good Governance – Bad Governance” – the Aberdeen Conference

Posted on November 25, 2015 by henry tapper

I’ve been working hard so I gave myself the luxury yesterday of half a day off to find out about how good governance can help investors get more from their investments. Forget the swanky surroundings and the top-dollar grub, this … Continue reading →

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So what does a poor boy do? (Aberdeen and Parmenion)

Posted on September 5, 2015 by henry tapper

Fund managers think of themselves as the asset managers of their clients -the investors. But lately they have found themselves serving platforms that treat funds as commodities. They have lost their primary relationship to their customers. The millennials took it … Continue reading →

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