Standard Life

Well if you have just returned from two weeks in the sun, the answer is likely to be "Not much. I had more than 200 emails waiting for me".

Five of the UK's financial services fund platforms have joined together to create a committee aimed at building industry-wide standards.

Listed life insurance firms Resolution Group and Standard Life are set to become members of the FTSE 100 index, but one of its investment house rivals will leave.

Less than a half of financial advisers have recommended pension term assurance (PTA) since A-Day, according to research from Standard Life.

Life offices may have succeeded in finding a way around a potential 70% tax charge for members who want to transfer their pensions after taking tax-free cash.

Standard Life is scrapping the retirement age for its 8,000 workers ahead of new employment legislation aimed at outlawing age discrimination, reports the Scotsman .

Standard Life has announced its pension term assurance Life Insurance with Tax Relief (LITR) is now available online.

Calculations of pension transfer values for defined benefit schemes should be made simpler and fairer to the transferring employee claims Standard Life.

The 'silly season' prompts stories which usually wouldn't see the light of day so IFAonline's Silly Season Shorts highlights the 'financial services news' hoping to catch the media eye.

STANDARD Life's top executives could receive a total of almost 2.8m shares, after the company's cash-based incentive scheme was converted to share-based awards, reports the Scotsman.