Global fund is prepared by Aberdeen

Aberdeen Asset Management is planning to launch a globally invested fund which will be partly run by US manager Katherine Garrett-Cox. The group is also holding a number of intermediary roadshows starting in the middle of September where Garrett-Cox will be one of the speakers. Garrett-Cox begins work at Aberdeen next month as head of US equities along with members of her team from Hill Samuel Asset Management, Rupert Della Porta and Rupert Howard who all left at the end of June. As well as running the group's two US unit trusts, Aberdeen North America and Aberdeen American Opportuniti...