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The board of the £555.3m Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus trust has put forward a package of reforms as it looks it make the trust “more competitive”

Abrdn is to standardise the terminology by which it discloses fees to investors across its fund range from January 2022.

British asset manager Abrdn Plc is in advanced discussions to buy an online investment service Interactive Investor for more than 1.5 billion pounds ($2.02 billion), Sky News reported https://bit.ly/3bLPOq7 on Saturday.

The Bank of England has held interest rates at the record low of 0.1%, on a 7-2 vote.

At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, global asset manager abrdn has announced its plan to decarbonise its portfolio by 50% by 2030 and engage with the industry to do the same.

The regulatory environment in Australia is preventing innovation in the financial advice industry, according to abrdn.

A leading investor in Royal Dutch Shell, abrdn has rejected calls to split up the fossil fuel giant, the FT reported.

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has launched a self-certification regime for defined benefit (DB) master trusts.

Investors need to engage with companies on Indigenous people’s rights to mitigate risks in their portfolio, according to the Responsible Investment Association Australasia.

The ASI Japanese Growth Equity and ASI Financial Equity funds have both been marked for liquidation