Aberdeen bags Guinness VCT

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ABERDEEN Asset Managers has won the management contract to run the under performing Guinness Flight VCT.

Aberdeen’s Growth Capital team has been selected to replace Inflexion Private Equity Partners as investment manager to the £19.1m VCT, agreeing a minimum four year contract to manage the fund. Neil MacFadyen, investment director for growth capital, will be the lead manager of the VCT. He will be supported by the Growth Capital team, which is based around the UK. Bill Nixon, head of the Growth Capital team, said he was delighted with the growth of the company’s VCT arm and promised a new issue of its successful Growth Oppor-tunities VCT later this year. He said: “We are very excited at ...

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