“It’s been tough for the industry to remain relevant through all the change,” says Martin Gilbert, who founded Aberdeen Asset Management and guided it through several transformative mergers before stepping back in 2019 after nearly four decades. His firm has since had to struggle on without him – and its vowels after rebranding as Abrdn.
Werner Spitz, who has died aged 97, was a pioneering US forensic pathologist who was consulted by Congressional committees investigating the assassinations of President John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King and testified as an expert witness in high-profile murder cases including those involving OJ Simpson and Phil Spector.
Cook replaced his Test-match opening partner Andrew Strauss, who retired from the format.