Martin Gilbert
The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Martin Gilbert emerges in this interview as a consummate Architect, a builder who shaped Aberdeen Asset Management from a small Scottish buyout into a 500 billion pound global enterprise through deliberate structural choices and disciplined opportunism.
“The biggest killer in asset management is what we call style drift. You've just got to avoid it. Even though you're going through long periods of underperformance, you've just got to stick with it because it will come back eventually to your style.”
on active management disciplineundated
“I would start with humility because I've noticed throughout my career the top fund managers are humble compared to average fund managers who have no reason to be arrogant.”
on attributes of great fund managersundated
“We kept the good people and the culture evolved as those people joined our organization. It became a sort of melting pot and it worked well.”
on managing acquisition cultureundated
Money Maze Podcast: “Martin Gilbert. Vice Chairman Standard Life Aberdeen”
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