Mandy Jane Pike

aIL is an active manager that makes their investment decisions using first-hand research. They conduct proprietary research to identify investment opportunities with attractive risk-reward characteristics. The firm combines multiple non-correlated investment decisions with risk monitoring and management. Their strategies include equities, fixed income, private markets, alternative investments and real estate. aIL utilizes a bottom-up, fundamental stock-picking approach, where sector, regional and country allocations are a residual of their bottom-up stock selection decisions, constrained by appropriate risk controls.

AAI is an active, research-driven manager which employs bottom-up asset analysis combined with a macroeconomic view to seek market mispricing opportunities and provide investors with superior returns. Their overall investment approach is anchored by their fundamental research and in-house expertise across asset classes including UK and international equities, real estate, bonds and cash. The firm typically adopts a long-term investment horizon when selecting equities, basing their investment decisions on in-house criteria and focusing on the firm's prospects over a five-year horizon. For government bonds, they utilize top-down analysis and a combination of bottom-up and macroeconomic research for corporate bonds.

Provides investment and asset management services

Aberdeen IS follows a bottom-up process to construct strategic, outcome-oriented and specialist portfolios. They are an active and research-oriented manager. The firm’s research team consists of specialist asset allocators and bottom-up manager researchers and leverages the insights of the quantitative investment and alternatives specialists in the Aberdeen Solutions group, as well as in Aberdeen’s fixed-income, real estate and equity teams. Their outcome-oriented portfolios are dynamically managed and focus on achieving a specific risk/return outcome unconstrained by a benchmark mix of assets. Specialist portfolios are constructed based on insights from manager research specialists and focus on a particular asset class / investment style.