Aberdeen Asset Management and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership have appointed European equities fund managers as staff turnover in the asset class continues unabated.

Aberdeen has promoted James Laing to be head of pan-European equities to replace Chou Chong, who is moving back to Singapore where he will work on the firm's Asia Pacific equities team under Peter Hames, the head of the unit. Laing was a senior investment manager within the unit, and has worked at Aberdeen since 2000.