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Staying disciplined in a crowded market

Standard Life Private Equity Trust fund manager Roger Pim explains why increasingly frothy valuations mean a cool head is essential...
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Roger Pim, global head of private markets product strategy and solutions, Aberdeen Standard Investments
Last update 29 May 2018
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Standard Life Private Equity Trust fund manager Roger Pim explains why increasingly frothy valuations mean a cool head is essential...

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About the manager

About the manager

Roger leads the Private Markets Product Strategy and Solutions team where he is responsible for driving innovation and product strategy across private markets including private equity, infrastructure and real assets. In addition, Roger is also responsible for the Standard Life Private Equity Trust “SLPET”, Aberdeen Standard Investments’ listed private equity vehicle, and is a member of the private equity funds and economic infrastructure investment committees.

Before joining the Product Strategy and Solutions team, Roger was Deputy Head of SL Capital, Standard Life Investments’ private markets business where he was involved in all aspects of the business. Roger has broad experience having spent ~20 years in private markets and has sat on the advisory boards of a number of leading European private equity firms.

Prior to joining SL Capital in 2002, Roger worked for Goldman Sachs in London in their corporate finance team where he focused on private equity transactions.

Roger has a MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Cambridge and a MBA from the University of Edinburgh.

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