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SLA hopeful of resuming Scottish Widows mandate after insurance sale

Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) is hopeful that selling its insurance business will give it a chance to re-tender for the £109bn ($152bn) Scottish Widows asset mandate.

Lloyds reports "a lot of interest" in £109bn Scottish Widows asset mandate

Lloyds Banking Group has been flooded with enquiries about managing £109bn ($139bn) of Scottish Widows assets, after announcing the sacking of current manager Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA).

Lloyds Banking Group plotted merger with Standard Life Aberdeen

Scottish Widows terminates £100bn Standard Life Aberdeen contract

Lloyds Banking Group has axed the mandate it had with Standard Life Aberdeen to manage £109bn ($153bn) of assets for the bank's Scottish Widows insurance business.

Aberdeen Standard Investments launches employment fund with poverty charity

Fund helps promote good employment practices and supports UN Sustainable Development Goal

Build-to-rent: an emerging opportunity?

Within the booming UK real estate industry, where a lack of supply has inflated valuations and rental prices, the build-to-rent sub-sector offers an alternative revenue stream for insurers. Cintia Cheong reports

L&G allocates £350m to UK rolling stock in two deals

LGIM Real Assets has completed two rolling stock deals worth £350m ($474m), taking its total number of rolling stock investments to four

Aberdeen Standard Investments launches impact fund

Aberdeen Standard Investments has launched its first impact investment-focused fund. The fund is also its first since it was created through the merger of Standard Life Investments and Aberdeen Asset management.

Brexit the great infrastructure unknown

With huge competition and a small pool of opportunities, infrastructure investment is not easy in the UK. And things are likely to be even less stable post-Brexit. But could the divorce from the EU actually be a boon for insurance investors? Sarfraz Thind reports

Aberdeen Standard invests in Dutch gas infrastructure