Aberdeen has beaten off competition from Macquarie to acquire Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) in a deal worth up to £650m.
Aberdeen will issue Lloyds with 131.8m of its shares - worth around £550m at a reference price of 420p apiece - followed by a performance-related payment of up to £100m in cash over the next five y...
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