Asset Management

Standard Life Aberdeen denies report Martin Gilbert to step down

Investment company describes reports that Gilbert is leaving to chair digital bank Revolut as 'inaccurate'

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Standard Life Aberdeen has denied that its vice-chair,Martin Gilbert is on the verge of leaving the £568bn investment company he helped create more than 30 years ago.

A July 23 article in the Financial Times stated that 64-year-old Gilbert, who became vice-chair in March after stepping down as co-chief executive of Standard Life Aberdeen, was leaving to become chair of Revolut, the digital bank.

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