investment partnership swip type ltd. industry investment management founded 2000 headquarters edinburgh scotland products investment management number of employees 490 parent aberdeen asset management website www.swip.com scottish widows investment partnership swip is an asset management company based in edinburgh scotland . it is one of europe s largest asset management companies with 146 billion 1 of funds under management as at 31 december 2013 . these funds are invested across all major asset classes including worldwide equities property bonds multi asset multi manager and cash . contents 1 history 2 current operations 3 references 4 external links history edit scottish widows investment partnership was created in 2000 following the merger of two well established asset management companies scottish widows investment management and hill samuel asset management . swip came into being under the leadership of orie dudley who resigned later that year to move to northern trust . 2 he was replaced by bill main formerly deputy chief executive at scottish widows . after bill main retired in 2003 3 chris phillips became ceo at swip until he announced his intention to move to morley fund management in 2007 . 4 dean buckley joined swip as managing director in january 2008 following 12 years with hsbc investments . mr buckley left swip on completion of the aberdeen asset management plc acquisition . on 1 april 2014 aberdeen asset management plc announced the completion of their acquisition of swip from lloyds banking group in an rns to the london stock exchange . 5 swip is now part of aberdeen asset management plc. current operations edit swip promotes a range of mutual funds through financial advisers and investment platforms . swip also manages a diverse range of specialist funds for a range of institutional clients including large pensions charities and local government in the uk europe and the us . in addition scottish widows investment partnership manages life assurance pension and investment funds for scottish widows which is part of its largest single client lloyds banking group . scottish widows investment partnership limited is part of aberdeen asset management plc and the trademarks swip and scottish widows are used temporarily under licence from lloyds bank plc. swip employs around 500 staff including more than 150 investment professionals . references edit http www.swip.com global about us funds under management historical http www.trustnet.com news displaystory.aspx id 28133 http www.efinancialnews.com story 2003 09 01 bill main to retire as chief executive of swip http www.aviva.co.uk media centre story 2972 chris phillips to be new morley ceo http www.londonstockexchange.com exchange news market news market news detail.html announcementid 11910253 external links edit official website this article about a company of scotland is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title scottish widows investment partnership & oldid 719084727 categories 2000 establishments in scotlandcompanies established in 2000companies based in edinburghfinancial services companies of scotlandinvestment companies of the united kingdomscottish company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 may 2016 at 14 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view