“Standard Life Aberdeen changes name to ‘Abrdn'”

Apr 26, 2021 | Companies

You kind of hope that the chief exec came up with this, having heard his two year-old mispronounce where daddy works. The reality, I’m sure, is that several agencies pitched, the winner had several meetings with the board, marketing and sales management, then arranged focus groups of various demographics before the new corporate image was presented to the board, who by then had spent so much on it that there was no turning back. Nice work if you can get it.

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“Nutmeg losses climb 28% after JPMorgan takeover”

“Nutmeg losses climb 28% after JPMorgan takeover”

If you’re offering cheap, online investment advice, you need volume to make it profitable. To get volume (ie lots of money), you need marketing (to get lots of people to log in and give you money). And that costs, particularly, as will inevitably be the case, most of...