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Counselors warned former Aldeen Chief bird of executive in the steep stechen stechen Against rebranding as ABRDN and still asked to separate the asset manager their name to consult with marketing material.
The Bird, carrying the highest jobs in Asset Manager in 2020, choosing to change the standard name of the Libran in April by 2021 despite the experts of the brand, according to three people familiar with the process.
The bird case for removing most vowels from the company name about internet domain debt for Judah has been removed, people said. The board, led by Sir Douglas Flint as a seat, also supported Bird’s decision to use the ABDN name, both of the sources said.
The Consultancy Wolff company, which is drafted to help with rebrand, encouraged Asset Manager Does not turn to ABRDN. It also demands the fund group to explore the selling, part of the Omnicom group, is not responsible for going on behalf, more than people.
Two of the people familiar with the process remembers that The name ABRDN No “try” well when it is hurting financial consumers groups, but said Bird still wants to push ahead.
Change is generally mocked once it becomes public, which prompts bird jason windsor’s successor to Switch the brand to Aberdeen Last week.
The group was formed from the fellowship of the standard life and Aberdeen in 2017, to make one of the largest European asset managers during the European.
But the bird should be grapple with combine two different cultures and a difficult environment for stockpicker-run funds, as investors move their currency to low index index costs.
The bird took the knife at the costs by combining and ending funds and by axing jobs, while the group was twice being weried from FTSE 100 over the last few years.
Windsor brought the paper from Bird in May on an interim basis and made Continuous chief executive In September.
He told the finance period earlier this month the new Name Aberdeen “makes it very easy for us to overcome it completely and continue”.
In addition to Windsor the company does not spend money on consultants to change the name of Aberdeen, it spells in a lower case. The group has not yet revealed how much the first ABRDN rebrand is spent, even if people who are familiar with the situation estimates that such contracts are worth about £ 500,000.
The group Swuga back to a gain Last year as customers with no small amounts of money from its funds and as investors investors have improved.
Aberdeen says: “This is a business proud, with a promise of a future. The change in the name is a pragmatic decision, while we focus on delivery for our clients, customers, people and shareholders.”
The bird and Flint did not respond to requests to comment. Wolff Olins refused to comment.
