Article: MANAGER PURCHASE: LLOYDS, SCOTTISH WIDOWS PAIR LIKELY TO FOCUS ON CHASING ASSETS OUTSIDE UNITED KINGDOM.

The combination of Scottish Widows Investment Management Ltd.'s assets with Lloyds TSB Group's asset management wings will create a U.K.-based money manager with close to $128 billion under management and its sights set on expanding globally.

Last week, Lloyds TSB Group PLC, London, announced it agreed to pay L7 billion ($11.2 billion) for Scottish Widows Fund & Life Assurance Co., Edinburgh. Executives with Scottish Widows said they hoped the deal would be closed by March.

Scottish Widows Investment Management ``is a U.K. asset management company that wants to be global,'' said Orie Dudley Jr., chief executive officer. The company is ``nowhere near ...

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