Standard Life gift trust plan

Standard Life is to launch a discounted gift trust as the first product from its new Dublin operation early in 2006. The insurer applied to the Irish regulator in March to establish a Dublin business and this will be used primarily to sell offshore policies back into the UK. Standard Life launched a UK onshore Discounted Gift Plan last month. Standard Life has a domestic company in Ireland selling pensions, protection and investment products and already markets products to continental Europe as well as having operations in China and India. In Germany, Standard Life sells with-profits...