Standard Life

Standard Life has announced an immediate reduction in final bonuses and an increase in MVRs on some of its with-profits plans.

Standard Life has hit out at new power of attorney rules on the first anniversary of their introduction.

HSBC has hired Standard Life to provide a Group SIPP for employees wanting to invest maturing HSBC Share Reward Plans into a pension.

Standard Life has launched a search to track down 200,000 people entitled to a slice of £184m in unclaimed shares and cash from its demutualisation.

Standard Life has reaffirmed its commitment to the much-maligned investment bond, by doubling the trail commission available on the product.

Trustees have less than a month to change the beneficiaries of flexible trusts bought before March 2006 or face new IHT implications which kick-in on 6 October.

Standard Life has extended the range of less volatile forms of investment available through its individual, group and Wrap SIPPs in response to adviser feedback.

Standard Life's retail and group SIPP customers will now be able to access its mutual fund supermarket, FundZone.

Smoothing has helped cushion Standard Life's with-profits policies against falling markets, the group says today in its mid-year review of bonus rates.

Standard Life has teamed with Lloyd's broker NCG Professional Risks to offer its wrap advisers preferential terms for professional indemnity (PI) insurance.