Standard Life, Aberdeen to build passive business post-merger?

Mar 6, 2017

Fund houses must get better at active management or offer index products, say industry players. The scale that the Standard Life-Aberdeen merger would bring may facilitate such a move.

Standard Life, Aberdeen to build passive business post-merger?

The takeover of Aberdeen Asset Management by Standard Life is unlikely to have a huge impact on the two UK firms’ Asian operations, but it should bring the merged entity the global scale to better support an index investment business, say industry observers.

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