abrdn: The journey from Europe's second-largest fund manager to the FTSE 250

From the £11bn merger to Bird's exit

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When abrdn’s former chief executive, Stephen Bird, said in January that the troubled UK asset manager needed to axe 500 jobs in order to drastically reduce costs, it was not expected that the CEO himself would become a casualty of those cuts.

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