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January 27, 2026 @ 3:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen has urged the UK government to boost the annual contribution limit for Junior Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs) to £9,000, aligning it with the current Junior ISA threshold. This move, they argue, would help bridge a significant savings divide that has widened over the past… Read More

January 22, 2026 @ 5:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen Investments has rolled out three new Article 8 funds designed to blend passive efficiency with active enhancements. Announced recently this month, the World Equity Enhanced Index Fund, American Equity Enhanced Index Fund, and European Equity Enhanced Index Fund aim to deliver cost-effective equity exposure… Read More

December 19, 2025 @ 6:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen Investments, a specialist asset manager, announced real estate acquisitions: WORVE Yokohama Isezakicho, a recently completed build-to-rent property, along with a portfolio of various residential properties across some of Tokyo’s districts. It now comes after the strategic acquisition of WORVE Isezakicho, “completed in Feb ’25;… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen, which claims to be the provider of the UK’s second largest adviser platform by assets, announces the launch of a new Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) and Junior SIPP. The SIPP and Junior SIPP brings flexibility, “intergenerational financial planning and enhanced user experience.” Clients are reportedly… Read More

November 28, 2025 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

By the end of H1 2025, very little around AI investment had been seen in public bond markets, with the sector’s “hyperscalers” said to be generating a considerable level of cash flow and leveraging private equity, private credit and other sources to “fund their capital… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 6:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen, the specialist asset manager, announces its Global Private Markets Fund (GPMF) has now been onboarded onto the Allfunds Alternative Solutions Platform. The Aberdeen Global Private Markets Fund will now aim to reach a network of 900 distributors at a time when platforms like Allfunds… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen Group plc is announcing it finalized an agreement to increase its interest in Tritax Management LLP, one of the United Kingdom’s logistics managers, reinforcing its commitment to growth in the UK logistics real estate sector. After the first acquisition of a 60% interest in… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 10:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen research indicates that private markets could potentially outperform traditional 60/40 portfolio strategies, as it sets out 8-point plan to make private markets “work for public good.” As noted in the update from Aberdeen, private markets might significantly boost returns from retirement pots and even… Read More

September 3, 2025 @ 12:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen Group plc, a UK-based wealth and investments firm, has recently announced significant strategic moves aimed at sharpening its focus and enhancing its offerings in the evolving financial landscape. This month, Aberdeen unveiled a partnership with Titanbay, a European private markets infrastructure provider, to streamline… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Banking Group, Aberdeen Investments, and Archax announce a partnership to advance the use of blockchain technology, utilizing tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) as collateral for their trading businesses. In a UK-first initiative, tokenised “units of Aberdeen Investment’s money market fund (tMMF) and tokenised UK gilts… Read More

June 13, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The world’s largest economies will need to spend around $64 trillion on physical infrastructure by 20502 if they want to keep the lights on and the wheels turning, new modelling from Aberdeen Investments, the specialist asset manager, suggests. This is equivalent to “1.7% of global… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global investment company Aberdeen announces that £3bn of pension scheme policies have transferred from Phoenix Life Limited to abrdn Life and Pensions Limited. The transfer relates to a specific book of business “where the policyholders are typically pension scheme trustees.” It highlights the strength and ambition of… Read More