Aberdeen Group’s Interactive Investor platform played a key role in the asset manager’s recent turnaround, with retail investor inflows of £2.5 billion reported in the third quarter. The platform, known as ii, saw net inflows increase by 32 percent during the period, boosting assets under management in the division to £111.8 billion. Customer numbers at ii rose by 8 percent year-on-year, reaching 533,000 users.

This growth helped offset net outflows of £700 million from Aberdeen’s adviser business, which caters to independent wealth managers. Despite the outflows, assets under management in the adviser division rose by 5 percent to £84.5 billion, a change the company attributed to favorable market conditions.

Aberdeen’s investments division, which serves institutional, insurance, and retail wealth clients, faced outflows of £2 billion overall. Within the unit, net inflows from institutional and retail clients improved to £1 billion, up from £200 million in the same quarter last year. However, equities funds within the division experienced net outflows of £1.9 billion, and outflows from insurance clients increased sharply to £2.5 billion from £1.1 billion the previous year. Total assets under management across the investments division stood at £393.2 billion at the end of the quarter.

Overall, Aberdeen reported net new outflows of £300 million for the quarter, which coincided with a 4.1 percent decline in its share price to 225.5 pence. Group-wide assets rose by 4 percent to £578.9 billion.

The Edinburgh-based firm returned to the FTSE 100 index this summer after successfully navigating a period of challenges, including its relegation in 2023 following a rebranding to abrdn that was met with criticism. Since appointed chief executive just over two years ago, Jason Windsor has overseen a restructuring that included divesting non-core operations like its financial planning business and selling half of Aberdeen’s stake in Standard Life, another Edinburgh-based retirement group, for approximately £430 million.

Windsor noted that trading activity on the Interactive Investor platform remained significantly higher than last year’s average, though somewhat below the elevated levels seen earlier in 2026. He expressed confidence in the company’s ability to meet its full-year target of an adjusted operating profit of at least £300 million, supported by net capital generation anticipated to be around £300 million.