Standard Life

HM Revenue & Customs has issued new forms for reporting the estates of deceased persons.

A workshop demonstrating to IFAs how technology can be used to save time and reduce administration has been launched.

Friends Provident has poached a second executive from rival insurer Standard Life in under a year, this time snaring its CFO Evelyn Bourke.

Standard Life reported net flows into UK life and pensions products dropped 15% to £1.7bn over the nine months to September 30 2008, as the group tries to weather global economic turbulence.

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.