Investment Expertise

At Aberdeen, asset management is our business.

We operate independently and only manage assets for third parties, allowing us to focus solely on their needs, without conflicts of interest. We now manage £164.7 billion* of third party assets from our offices around the world.

Our clients access our investment expertise across the three asset classes: equities, fixed income and property.

We package our skills in the form of segregated and pooled products across borders. We invest worldwide and follow a predominantly long-only approach, based on fundamentally sound investments – we do not chase market fads.

Our investment teams are based in the markets or regions in which they invest. Clients understand our process and portfolios because they are transparent.

Assets by Client Type

Global reach, local understanding

We know global markets from the local level upwards, drawing on 1,805 staff, across 31 offices in 24 countries.

We believe our focus, size and approach enable us to provide effective asset management and superior client service.

Our teams champion original thinking and knowledge, so investment decisions are based only on our own research.

As a group, we have the scale to provide global coverage of financial markets; yet we are small enough to focus on each and every portfolio decision.

Close-knit teams, clear investment processes and flat structures are important to us. We seek to grow our clients’ assets in a way that is manageable and sustainable over the longer term.

* Source, Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited, as at 30 June 2010