Standard Life

BlackRock's UK Absolute Alpha fund has been added to Standard Life's insured product range and its life counterpart to FundsNetwork's investment bond fund range.

Standard Life recorded a 5% jump in UK life and pensions new business in the first half of the year, with strong IFA take-up and sales on its wrap platform a highlight for the Edinburgh-based insurer.

Standard Life has launched a retirement planning tool for advisers to model client retirement scenarios.

City Financial's fund range is now available through Standard Life's wrap and FundZone supermarket.

Standard Life has been hit with the huge task of writing to around 35,000 customers in its pension and investment plans to explain about errors in the pricing of some internal funds.

Standard Life has increased the investment options available within its Gift Plan to include mutual funds in trust wrappers.

Pensioner inflation could erode entire monthly income within two decades of retirement, according to Standard Life.

Standard Life is focusing on generating more ‘capital-lite' new business which does not require commission payments, chief executive Sandy Crombie told shareholders at the group's AGM today.

F&C's risk-based multi-manager Lifestyle fund range is now available across Standard Life's entire product range.

Standard Life Investments (SLI) has launched its Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund to retail investors providing them with access to institutional investment strategies.