Charlotte Richards talks to global equity income fund managers about the benefits (and drawbacks) of the new sector classification, and what is driving the performance of their portfolios and dividend growth
Standard Life has successfully sued its professional indemnity insurers for around £100m to recover losses related to its Pension Sterling Fund.
Standard Life is cutting some bonus rates on its UK with-profits plans from 1 February, in a move which will impact about half of the insurer's total policyholders.
The government must tackle the regulatory arbitrage created by the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) ban on gender-based underwriting, Standard Life has said.
Financial advisers will lose out on an estimated £80m worth of commission when the government outlaws contracting out of the state pension into private vehicles in April, Standard Life has said.
Standard Life (SL) will review the wording of letters sent directly to investors after advisers complained they were incentivizing clients to drop IFAs.
An IFA has claimed Standard Life removed him from his client's policies without instruction.
Standard Life has denied its latest mailout to IFAs' clients is an attempt to sell to them direct.
Software provider IntelliFlo is putting in place a four year £10m investment programme whilst also announcing an enhanced integration with the Standard Life wrap.
The winners of the Investment Week Investment Trust Awards 2011 were announced at a glittering ceremony in London last night.