Standard Life "more receptive" to IFAs following restructure

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Standard Life has stressed it will continue to have a "huge focus" on advisers following a restructure.

The group has announced a re-organisation of its UK business which will see sales, marketing and distribution come together under a new Take to Market division. This will be led by current head of distribution Paul Mathews. Its new division will be split amongst corporate, direct-to-consumer and the intermediated retail and wealth operations. "This is a new way of working, designed to respond to customer feedback and meet our desire to increase the speed of proposition delivery," the company said in a briefing note. A Standard Life spokesperson said advisers will suffer no disrupti...

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