Meet the Investment Influencers: Aberdeen's Simon Wood

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The fund selection and fund research markets are a major part of the multi-trillion pound investment industry but who are the key players within it?

In the latest of our series of video interviews with the most respected individuals who select funds, decide ratings or otherwise influence the allocation of investor fund flows, we meet Simon Wood, head of manager selection at Aberdeen Asset Management. In this role, he is responsible for the management on advice on more than £15bn of assets and is involved in all aspects of investment philosophy, asset allocation, fund research, selection and monitoring. Wood, joined Aberdeen in 2014 following the group's purchase of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) from Lloyds Banking ...

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