Standard Life Investments

Fears of a possible end to the current strong growth in equity returns are being driven by "false signals" as a continued bullish nature towards global market should be expected in 2006, suggest Standard Life Investments strategists.

MOTORISTS ARE being warned petrol prices are now certain to pass £1 a litre over the next few days as Hurricane Katrina has wiped out many of the oil refineries on the US Gulf coast, reports the Guardian .

Standard Life Investments has this morning exapanded its move into the multimanager market with the launch of seven manager of manager funds inside its sigma mutual fund suite.

Standard Life Investments yesterday launched its first push into the institutional private equity fund of funds market.

Standard Life Investments' private equity division is expanding its operations in the US private equity market following the appointment of Robert Hatch vice president for private equity business in North America.