Abrdn plc, formerly Standard Life Aberdeen plc, is a United Kingdom-based global investment company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Disemvoweling, disemvowelling, or disemvowelment of a piece of alphabetic text is rewriting it with all the vowel letters elided. Disemvoweling is often used in band and company names. It used to be a common feature of SMS language where space was costly.