Standard Life

Standard Life will provide a Sipp and work jointly with Fidelity FundsNetwork to bring an onshore bond product to market, as the platform moves towards a full wrap service.

Standard Life has launched an online interactive service for advisers to guide them through technical pension questions.

Scottish Life has pointed to the potential cash windfall afforded by equity release following new rules fixed to simplification on 6 April 2006.

ALL OF STANDARD Life's seven-million-strong global customer base could be offered shares in the company on a preferential basis next year, in a flotation deal much bigger than that initially considered, according to this morning's Scotsman .

Various pension providers have welcomed the FSA's move to scrap the RU64 rule on pensions advice.

THOUSANDS OF Standard Life policyholders could miss out totally on the potential windfalls of demutualisation unless their policy matures after that date, according to this morning's Scotsman .

Standard Life has discovered over 70% of consumers underestimate their weight on protection new business applications in comparison to official medical results.

Standard Life is entering the offshore market to target tax efficiency business at UK clients.

A panel of product providers, IFA portals and back office software firms has announced plans to set aside commercial pressures and collaborate on the development of IFA technology and support service tools.

Standard Life is rolling out additional inheritance tax trust wrappers around two of its bonds to give policyholders more flexibility as to when they tie in their assets.