Scottish Widows: End of story for moaning Orie

Troubles continue at Scottish Widows, whose chief executive, Orie Dudley, is leaving after publicly criticizing his bosses.

It has been a hard year for the Edinburgh investment house. First it had to absorb a difficult merger with Hill Samuel – many of whose fund managers preferred to Find new jobs rather than leave London for bonny Scotland.

It lost its one real star manager, Albert Morillo, head of European equities, who jumped ship to BlackRock prompting several clients to follow.

Then Dudley Fired his head of UK equities, Mike Corless, in the process openly criticizing him for poor performance.

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