Logo of Aberdeen Asset Management, UK's largest public fund and Europe's largest listed fund manager. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Aberdeen Asset Management, headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, is the UK's largest public fund and Europe's largest listed fund manager. It has branches and offices in 26 countries and total assets of 483.3 billion yuan ($76 billion). Its businesses involve stocks, securities, alternative investment, and asset management in the real estate sector.

On June 18, 2015, the company announced the upgrade of its Shanghai office in the Lujiazui finance area of the Pudong New District to a wholly-owned subsidiary. Three months later, it was granted a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise license and finished all the business registration procedures.