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1825, Edinburgh-based insurance giant Standard Life’s wholly-owned financial planning business, has today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Baigrie Davies with assets under advice of around £400m. The move follows the recent agreements to acquire Almary Green in East Angl

Charles Haresnape Challenger bank Aldermore is continuing its push into the UK market with a new range of products aimed at the bridging finance and property development sectors in Scotland.

Properties sell for substantially higher if they are within school catchment areas for certain Edinburgh schools, when compared with properties nearby, according to local estate agents ESPC. With school roles rising and a high demand for places at the perceived best schools, schools are offering ver

Despite industry growth driving assets under management to an expected $102 trillion by 2020 a new report from PwC, ‘Rethinking reward as asset management moves centre stage’, predicts that pay will not increase at the same rate and compensation for asset managers as a percentage of revenues wil

Alliance Trust’s strategy of buying back its own shares to improve investor returns has seen the Dundee-based global investment firm splash out almost £175 million in the last six months. Latest figures from the company revealed the cost of the concerted action embarked upon following a pledge to

Albert Bartlett, The Black Isle Brewing Co and The Borders Forest Trust were among companies from across Scotland whose success has been celebrated at the Scottish Rural Awards & Gala Dinner. The event, held at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, is the culmination of a second year of partnership betwee

Atria One from Morrison Street The City of Edinburgh Council has today announced the sale of Atria, its award winning Grade A office development, to Deka Immobilien, a global real estate investment company based in Germany, for £105m.

Martin Murray, Dunnet Bay Distillery and David MacDonald, Spey Valley Brewer. An inaugural indoor craft beer culture festival is returning to Aberdeen for a second year, increasing its exhibitor offering by 300 per cent.

Ken Patullo Financial distress across the leading football clubs in Scotland, which peaked in 2011 at almost 10% of all clubs, remains at a record low, according to football finance experts at Begbies Traynor following their analysis of key indicators of business distress in the sector.

Martin Findlay Professional services firm KPMG has announced the appointment of a new office senior partner in Aberdeen.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s civil recovery unit will recover £2.2 million, under an agreed civil settlement with a Glasgow-based company which accepted that it had obtained business through unlawful conduct. The recovered funds will be used for community projects across Scotl

Lindsey Miller is head of the serious and organised crime division at the Crown Office.  

Mark Smeaton EQ Accountants LLP has been appointed Mark Smeaton as a new partner who specialises in agricultural services.

Ian Bremner Scottish accountancy and business services firm French Duncan has boosted its hospitality and leisure team by appointing Ian Bremner as its new hotel accounting director.

Edinburgh-based Lloyds Banking Group has announced a new drive to help thousands of UK businesses become ‘first time’ exporters, as part of an effort to help support the growth of small and medium sized firms, and to help reverse the country’s widening trade deficit. The Group, which includes