By Ian Fraser Published: BQ Business Quarter Date: 25 March 2014 Martin Gilbert is one of the corporate world’s great survivors. Between 2002 and 2004, the 58-year-old lived through a crisis that came close to destroying his firm and ending his career. The asset management firm he co-founded through a management buyout in 1983, Aberdeen Asset Management, […]
By Ian Fraser Published: Unquoted Date: 25 March 2014 When independent Scottish brewery Brewdog, broke UK records by raising £4.25 million through a crowdfunding exercise last December, the company’s co-founder James Watt didn’t mince his words. Watt, a 31-year old law graduate who co-founded the Aberdeenshire-based brewery in April 2007, said: “The mental shackles that […]
By Ian Fraser Published: The Sunday Herald Date: 2 March 2014 Ian Fraser’s note: This is the unedited version of an article published by The Sunday Herald. The shorter, published version can be read here http://bit.ly/rbsrights. Investors who are suing the Royal Bank of Scotland over its “misleading” £12.3 billion rights issue have suffered a setback […]