Standard Life

Phoenix Group shares experienced a surge of over 6% on Monday, following the company's announcement of significantly exceeding its cash generation targets and upgraded future guidance. The FTSE 100 firm, which owns Standard Life, reported a 31% increase in 2024 operating profit, reaching £825

Andy Curran, CEO of Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, has decided to retire in the summer of 2025 after a transformative five year tenure in which the business has become a key driver of the group’s organic growth. In 2020, Mr Curran set out a growth strategy for Standard Life which focuse

Phoenix Group, the retirement savings and income business which owns Standard Life, has posted strong financial results for 2023. The company achieved its 2025 growth target two years early, with £1.5 billion in new business cash generated by its Standard Life division.

Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) and Standard Life, a division of Phoenix Group, have introduced a report aimed at initiating coordinated action to address customer vulnerability in Scotland's financial services sector. Calling for a sector-wide charter for vulnerable customers to be established,

Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, has partnered with open banking and open finance platform Moneyhub, to deliver its pensions dashboard.

Standard Life, a Phoenix Group subsidiary, has partnered with Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) to hold the first-ever 'Vulnerable Customer Summit' in Edinburgh. The summit, set to attract representatives from various financial institutions, seeks to foster collaboration in addressing the growing

Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, has today announced a new programme of investment. The purchase of the Standard Life brand in May 2021 from abrdn is strategically important to Phoenix Group as it pursues a growth strategy that w

Former Standard Life head Keith Skeoch has been appointed as chair of the Edinburgh International Festival board. Mr Skeoch, already a trustee and active member of the Festival's diversity and inclusion board working group, will take up the role from June.

Around 500 finance jobs could be lost in Edinburgh over the next three years after Phoenix Group announced a new investment in automation.

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has launched three equity and five fixed income index tracker funds on Standard Life’s Wrap and Elevate platforms. Investing in passive funds has grown in popularity as a low-cost, diverse and reliable means of mirroring the performance of a specific index.

Paul McGhee Edinburgh-based Standard Life has announced the appointment of Paul McGhee as head of Brexit strategy.

Martin Gilbert The proposed merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management will create "a world-class investment company", Aberdeen's co-founder and chief executive Martin Gilbert has said.

Stephen Lochhead Standard Life has announced the appointment of Stephen Lochhead to the role of Global Talent and Organisational Development Director.

David Hughes 1825, Standard Life’s wholly-owned financial planning business, has established a Scottish regional office with the announcement today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Munro Partnership Limited with assets under advice of over £600 million.

Carolyn Fairburn Edinburgh-based Standard Life has warned that the prospect of higher income tax, imposed by Holyrood, poses an increasing risk to its business.