Standard Life

Standard Life has made charging information on its wrap platform easier along with other alterations designed to improve the management of client wrap portfolios.

HM Revenue and Customs have issued revised rules on stand-alone pension lump sums in an effort to ‘plug various loopholes'.

Consumer confidence in buy-to-let property has increased over the last few months at the expense of more traditional investment products.

AXA, THE FRENCH insurance giant, is understood to be in talks to buy Thinc Destini, the fast-growing financial advice group, for around £170m.

STANDARD LIFE'S successful first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange takes top billing today.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has given Standard Life Assurance Ltd a long-term ‘A' credit rating, and its parent plc a ‘BBB+' rating.

THE SCOTSMAN claims the new money being raised through Standard Life's flotation today is unlikely to give it any significant commercial edge.

Standard Life has already seen gains on its share value since entering the FTSE 100 index this morning but elsewhere trading is down as oil stocks are seeing values reverse last week's gains.

Standard Life has set the offer price of its flotation at 230p per share.

Standard Life has added a retirement calculator to its website to help people plan how much they need to save.