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Aberdeen UK Tracker Trust (formally known as Edinburgh UK Tracker Trust)
Unit Investment Trusts, Face-Amount Certificate Offices, and Closed-End Management Investment Offices United Kingdom
Company Description
Objective of Aberdeen UK Tracker Trust Plc
The objective of Aberdeen UK Tracker Trust Plc is to invest in a portfolio designed to track closely the FTSE All-Share index, both in terms of capital and income.
About Aberdeen Asset Management
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC is an international investment management group, managing assets for both retail and institutional clients from offices around the world. Listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1991, the group had over £184.4 billion under management as at 29 February 2012. Our headquarters are in Aberdeen, but we place our people near the companies and markets in which they invest. Today we have staff based in 23 countries.
Executives
- Tom Ross OBE, Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director
- Appointed on 2 February 2001. Is a consulting actuary and formerly a Principal at Aon Ltd. He is chairman of the Trustee Board of the Smiths Industries Pension Scheme and was, until recently, a director of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society. He is a former Chairman of the Trustee Board of the Alstom UK Pension Scheme.
- Christopher Purvis CBE, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
- Christopher Purvis spent most of his career with S G Warburg & Co. and its successor companies. He has had extensive experience of the investment management industry as a director of a number of investment trusts and through his charitable trusteeships.
- David Hager, Independent Non-Executive Director
- David Hager, appointed on 23 February 2007. He is a consulting actuary and principal at Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow Limited, specialising in investment advice to pension funds. He is also a director of Kerr Henderson Hewitt Ltd.
- Kevin Ingram, Independent Non-Executive Director
- Kevin, a Chartered Accountant, was, until recently, an Audit Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and headed their UK Investment Funds practice from 2000 to 2007. His specialisation has been in financial services, with particular focus on securities and investment management.
- Wendy Mayall, Independent Non-Executive Director
- Appointed on 2 March 2012. Group Chief Investment Offier to Liverpool Victoria. Former strategic adviser to Stamford Associates Limited, and, prior to that, Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of Unilver's UK Pension Scheme.
- Paul Yates, Independent Non-Executive Director
- Appointed on 2 March 2012. Paul is a non-executive partner of 33 St James, a firm of management consultants and executive search consultants. He has had a long career in investment management, mainly in UBS, where he held a number of global roles.