Standard Life

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.

Several protection providers have already pulled out of the pension term assurance market this morning and more are expected to do so later today, following comments in the Pre-Budget Report suggesting the product was being misused.

Standard Life has announced it is withdrawing its pension term assurance policy as of today, following strong hints by the Treasury it will withdraw the right to use the product.

Despite broad support for the pension reforms published in today's Bill, some parts of the industry are concerned more could still be done.