Investment Week rounds up the news and events that happened over the summer 2017 period.
1. Standard Life completes merger with Aberdeen Asset Management Standard Life completed its merger with Aberdeen following regulatory and shareholder approval. The two major asset management players create a £670bn AUA behemoth, having first announced the deal on 6 March 2017. Recently, analysts at Citi have upgraded the merged business from 'neutral' to 'buy' on the back of upside driven by cost synergies and recovery in the firm's emerging market and GARS funds. 2. Rathbones and Smith & Williamson merger Rathbones confirmed it was in talks with Smith & Williamson over a merger w...
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