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  • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
    Martin Gilbert exits Abrdn funds’ board over potential conflicts of interest

    Asset manager says it is working with number of clients to resolve historic documentation issues at Luxembourg Sicavs

  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    AssetCo PLC
    Martin Gilbert’s AssetCo cancels controversial bonus scheme

    Company drops long-term incentive plan after criticism from shareholders

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    FT Asset Management
    Behind the scenes of Martin Gilbert’s eclectic second act

    Plus, El Salvador’s ‘volcano token’, FTSE 100 leads UK equities and Frank Auerbach in Petworth

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    Martin Gilbert’s second act: building a fund manager from the ashes of a firefighting service

    Former chair of Standard Life Aberdeen under pressure to prove critics of new venture wrong

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    News in-depthAbrdn Plc
    Abrdn banks on £1.5bn ‘no brainer’ acquisition of Interactive Investor

    FTSE 100 asset manager suffered after own megamerger but hopes another deal will restore fortunes

  • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
    Martin Gilbert’s AssetCo agrees its biggest takeover

    Group buys River and Mercantile in £100m all-share takeover

  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
    Fund management
    Martin Gilbert battles rival in effort to take over River and Mercantile

    Takeover offers push London asset manager’s shares up 12% as bidding war appears likely

  • Friday, 14 May, 2021
    Martin Gilbert returns to dealmaking fray with Saracen acquisition

    Founder of Aberdeen Asset Management is behind takeover of Edinburgh-based fund manager

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Martin Gilbert: knack of the right place at the right time

    Jet-setting dealmaker’s fellow travellers are just the ticket in the City

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    The Future of Money
    Revolut on track for profits as regulators and investors switch focus Premium content

    Chairman Martin Gilbert says cryptocurrency revenue has grown as foreign exchange has shrunk

  • Wednesday, 13 May, 2020
    Abrdn Plc
    Standard Life Aberdeen hit by investor backlash over virtual AGMs

    FTSE 100 asset manager is the first large British company to suffer revolt

  • Friday, 27 March, 2020
    News in-depthCity Insider
    Sharon White mucks in to help Waitrose’s panicky buyers

    John Lewis chair has been spotted restocking shelves in a north London branch

  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2019
    Revolut Ltd
    Martin Gilbert to take Revolut chair in January

    Digital bank hires asset management industry veteran in push for better governance

  • Friday, 4 October, 2019
    Martin Gilbert, asset management’s great survivor, bows out

    One of the fund sector’s best-known figures is leaving the industry

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Challenger bank Metro decides the Vernon Hill show mustn’t go on

    ‘The PT Barnum of banking’ had created a roadblock to securing new capital

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2019
    FT People: Financial Services
    Martin Gilbert to leave Standard Life Aberdeen next year

    Fund management veteran will not seek re-election as vice-chair in May

  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Fevertree’s saturated UK market shows it needs a US tonic

    Drinks maker may find domestic growth slows before international revenue takes off

  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
    Martin Gilbert to step down from Standard Life Aberdeen’s board

    One of asset management industry’s best-known executives expected to take on other roles

  • Monday, 15 July, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Fintech Revolut may need greyer grandee than Martin Gilbert

    Digital banking group is raising money but attracting scrutiny from regulators

  • Monday, 15 July, 2019
    FTfm
    Standard Life Aberdeen battles to prove its worth

    Investors have fled but is Keith Skeoch right to say the end of the tunnel is in view?

  • Sunday, 14 July, 2019
    Revolut Ltd
    Martin Gilbert set to assume chair of Revolut

    Digital bank aims to strengthen governance and win over investors

  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
    City InsiderPatrick Jenkins
    Martin Gilbert branches out

    Veteran investor last month popped up on the advisory board of Windhorst’s holding company

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2019
    News in-depthFT Alphaville
    H2O Asset Management: illiquid love

    The €1.4bn question about a French fund manager’s link to enigmatic financier Lars Windhorst

  • Friday, 15 March, 2019
    News in-depthFTfm
    SLA shake-up fails to appease disgruntled shareholders

    Group’s problems show no sign of abating after controversial co-leadership is axed

  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Standard Life Aberdeen wants co-pilot Gilbert back on the ground 

    Now that SLA has an actual globe-trotting chairman there is no need for a quasi one

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