{"id":579,"date":"2014-06-04T06:57:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T06:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=579"},"modified":"2014-06-04T06:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T06:57:57","slug":"aberdeen-asset-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen Asset Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland has a great tradition of money management. Aberdeen Asset Management [<a title=\"Aberdeen Asset Management\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aberdeen-asset.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aberdeen-asset.com\/<\/a>] is a member of the FTSE-100, and a relatively new company being formed in 1983. By strategic acquisitions over the years, some famous names have been absorbed into Aberdeen Asset Management:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UK and US institutional businesses of Deutsche Asset Management.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Edinburgh Fund Managers<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Murray Johnstone<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Prolific Financial Management<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Parts of Credit Suisse Asset Management<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Goodman Property Investors<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Scottish Widows Investment Partners<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, Aberdeen Asset Management has <strong>\u00a3324.5 billion<\/strong> under management. To put that into context, that equates <strong>21% of the annual UK GDP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting is seeing who some of the largest shareholders in Aberdeen Asset Management are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation<\/strong> with <em><strong>18% of the stock<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong>The Capital Group Companies<\/strong> with <em><strong>3% of the stock.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A major player in the fund management business looking after the savings and investments of retail and institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Aberdeen Asset Management Financials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10693&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=ab\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10693&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=ab<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>What is incredible is that the stock yields over <strong>3.5%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland has a great tradition of money management. Aberdeen Asset Management [http:\/\/www.aberdeen-asset.com\/] is a member of the FTSE-100, and a relatively new company being formed in 1983. By strategic acquisitions over the years, some famous names have been absorbed into Aberdeen Asset Management: UK and US institutional businesses of Deutsche Asset Management. Edinburgh Fund Managers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}