Aberdeen seeks buyer for financial planning business

Sale expected to be completed within next 12 months

Isabel Baxter
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Aberdeen is looking for a buyer for its financial planning business and has set out that a sale is expected to be completed within the next year.

In the asset manager's latest half year results report, shared yesterday (30 July), Aberdeen Financial Planning and Advice was classified as an operation held for sale as of 30 June 2025. Aberdeen Financial Planning and Advice's net assets of £26m for sale includes intangible assets of £22m. The group confirmed it is currently undertaking an active exercise to identify a buyer for this business. Aberdeen's hunt for a buyer comes after it completed its sale of compliance and support business Threesixty to Fintel back in July 2024. Elsewhere in the balance sheet, Aberdeen Group re...

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