Abigail Watt

Abigail is a research economist in the Aberdeen Standard Investments Research Institute (ASIRI) and is responsible for supporting research projects through empirical work, with expertise in time series econometrics in particular. Abigail also contributes to ASIRI’s indicator maintenance and development, helping to track macroeconomic and financial market developments by constructing summary indicators. Previously, Abigail interned with the global strategy team in Multi-Asset Solutions during the summer of 2015 investigating the forward looking information contained within option market pricing, considering the option implied market levels for various stock market indices. Abigail holds an MSc in Economics (Econometrics) with distinction from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).