Standard Life

Annuity margins at insurer Standard Life were down 59% in the first half of the year due to the sweeping changes to retirement income announced in the Budget, latest results show.

Increasing advisers' average productivity with the use of technology and attracting young talent are the keys to narrowing the advice gap in the wake of declining intermediary numbers, according to Standard Life's Barry O'Dwyer.

The pensions industry must work together to establish an efficient and consistent transfer method or risk having a poorer version inflicted upon it by the regulator, Tom McPhail has said.

Standard Life is to sponsor tennis star Andy Murray for the next three years.

Standard Life has become the second platform to secure cheaper access to Neil Woodford's new fund, after the group negotiated access to the 0.65% AMC share class.

Standard Life has enhanced its wrap platform with the launch of a specialist investment hub aimed at users with discretionary permissions, as it taps into the growing number of adviser firms changing their business models.

The New Individual Savings Account (NISA) regime is soon coming into force. But how can it be used in retirement planning? Fiona Murphy finds out.

Charles Stanley is to offer its model portfolio range via Standard Life's Wrap platform.

Prudential has become the latest life company to report severely hit annuity sales in the wake of radical reforms to how people can access their pension.

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