Standard Life

Over 235,000 former Standard Life members have yet to claim a total of almost 90 million shares following the company's demutualisation and flotation in July 2006.

Standard Life is issuing a pack in the New Year for advisers with clients who fall outside the PTA criteria outlined by HMRC on 19 December.

Standard Life discussed with the FSA beforehand its new communications policy, which asks customers to sign declaration forms acknowledging understanding of transfers and transfer value requests.

A row is threatening to break out between Standard Life and financial advisers as the life office is introducing a client communications process to bypass advisers and obtain direct client signatures when requests are made for transfer values or transfer...

America's banks are expecting sterling to plummet next year after its meteoric rise to near $2 this autumn, believing Britain's growth surge to be well past its sell-by-date, says the Daily Telegraph .

THE BUY-TO-LET boom is expected to continue next year as more people pin their hopes on rising house prices making up for inadequate pension savings, says this morning's Daily Telegraph .

Members can now protect their entitlement to more than 25% tax free cash, or an early retirement age, if they are assigned a policy after their original scheme winds-up.

Better regulation. Our own government has adopted this grand European idea to regulate smarter rather than harder.

Financial services providers like Standard Life have invested millions of pounds into e-commerce services during the last few years. Some of these services you will be using on a regular basis and will simply take for granted. Others you will have heard...

Clients must be on risk before midnight on 5th December to benefit from tax relief on pension term assurance policies, according to HMRC.