Aberdeen Standard’s Hugh Young on merger challenges

Aberdeen Standard Investments has experienced well-documented challenges following the merger of Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life in 2017, not least large outflows of client money­. Hugh Young, head of Asia Pacific at the £486.5 billion ($644.5 billion) fund house was frank but philosophical in a recent interview with AsianInvestor. AsianInvestor: There have been bumps in the road with the merger, but perhaps Asia was a smoother transition than the UK businesses? …