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Standard Life eyeing £3.5bn Newton deal

STANDARD Life Investments (SLI) is poised to more than quadruple the size of its growing wealth management arm with the acquisition of a £3.5 billion business, a report said yesterday.

SLI is said to be in exclusive talks to buy the wealth management division of Newton Investment Management, the fund management group founded by former Edinburgh fund manager Stewart Newton and now part of US bank BNY Mellon.

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