Talking with … Aberdeen Standard Investments' Jacqueline Lowe

Continuing Square Mile’s series of informal interviews

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Jacqueline Lowe, head of distribution at Aberdeen Standard Investments, talks to Richard Romer-Lee about customer focus, problem-solving, industry challenges and having women role models.

How did you get into the industry? In the 80s, I was rather taken by a TV series about a group of investment bankers - called Capital City. I immediately thought it was a world I would like to get into. I studied for a degree in accounting and finance and was desperate to find an investment job. BZW - Barclays' first investment banking arm - flew our whole class from Heriot Watt University to London, showed us round Lloyds of London and I was one of two or three people to whom they gave jobs on their graduate training programme. But shortly after, they wrote to us and dumped us all - s...

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