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By: Phil Hails-Smith

Phil Hails-Smith is a partner at Joelson.

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  • Two chief executives – is that one too many?

    Martin Gilbert’s resignation last week from Aberdeen Standard Investments may well have struck a chord with anyone who considers the “two chief executive model” ineffective.  When the merger between Standard Life and Aberdeen was announced back in 2017, some were dubious about whether the co-chief exec model would work in practice – though Gilbert and [...]

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