Standard Life

STANDARD LIFE insists its demutualisation proposals are on track, despite growing speculation wrangling with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) could force the society to delay its flotation, reports The Times .

STANDARD LIFE is in detailed discussions with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over its proposed stock market flotation next year but is convinced these talks should not delay its plans, says The Guardian .

STANDARD LIFE'S investment chief, Keith Skeoch, yesterday declared the bull market in shares had returned, as it emerged the life insurer had made a "tactical switch" into equities in June, says the Daily Telegraph .

Standard Life (SL) has made changes to its online protection underwriting procedures in a bid to improve straight-through processing.

FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL, Britain's biggest retail fund manager, is preparing to launch its first new investment trust for ten years, reports the Times .

Standard Life has launched a new portal for online servicing of its 38,000 employer pension schemes called GroupPensionzone.

Pensions reform features heavily in this morning's papers with the government's tax plans coming under fire and pensions fund trustees being warned they could face legal action fior failing to take their share from US securities class actions.

Standard Life says it is in a god position to go ahead with its proposed demutualization in 2006 after publishing what it calls "a robust set of figures" for the first six months of this year.

A leading economist has hit out at the Turner Commission for wrongly focussing on a so-called ‘pensions saving' as the most relevant to the standard of life during retirement.

A ‘big bang' effect in the wrap arena may take up to five years to materialise for the industry as a whole, says Standard Life.