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Global head of ASI to join Martin Gilbert on River and Mercantile board
Alex Hoctor-Duncan joins as an executive director responsible for strategic development
Alex Hoctor-Duncan is following in the footsteps of Martin Gilbert by moving from Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) to the board of River and Mercantile as an executive director.
Hoctor-Duncan (pictured) will be responsible for strategic development at River and Mercantile after he joins later this year at the end of his contract with ASI.
Valuable contribution
ASI said Hoctor-Duncan’s role will be taken over by Chris Demetriou, CEO UK, EMEA and Americas and Rene Buehlmann, CEO APAC, with the distribution strategy “aligned to their regional strategic priorities”.
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Future of Standard Life Aberdeen brand called into question by expected Phoenix Group deal
‘It looks as if the business wants to have a clearer identity that consigns some of its history to the archives’
Fund buyers say the reported sale of the Standard Life brand to Phoenix Group is further evidence of the former’s newly minted chief executive Stephen Bird carving out a clearer identity for the firm, but they view underlying product quality as more important than a name.
It comes after the future of the Aberdeen Standard Investments name established by the £13bn merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management in 2017 was called into question by a proposed deal with Phoenix Group, the life insurer.
Standard Life Aberdeen makes senior leadership changes in APAC, U.K. and EMEA
Rene Buehlmann
Standard Life Aberdeen has appointed new CEOs for the Asia-Pacific and U.K. and EMEA regions, a spokeswoman confirmed.
Rene Buehlmann will join as CEO Asia-Pacific effective March 1, replacing
Hugh Young. Mr. Young an Aberdeen veteran will become chairman of Asia. He will continue to champion the business in Asia and help Mr. Buehlmann in his new role. He also retains his director positions representing Aberdeen on certain fund and U.K. investment trust boards.
Mr. Buehlmann will further develop the firm s money management business across APAC. He most recently founded a private company. Further details were not available. He left UBS Asset Management where he was head of Asia-Pacific in 2019.