Standard Life

Providers have largely welcomed the Financial Services Authority's Consultancy Charging Working Group's review, but emphasised the need for the resulting guidance to be non-prescriptive.

Andrew Tully has left his position as Standard Life senior pensions policy manager to join MGM Advantage.

Standard Life's operating profit before tax increased by 7% to £425m last year, boosted by the uptick in markets and an increase in corporate pension scheme clients.

Standard Life has announced computer giant IBM as the first client for its corporate wrap platform.

Auto-enrolment legislation should be tweaked so employers do not have to enrol staff who have enhanced protection rights, Standard Life says.

Employees miss out on an average of £1,272 every year because they fail to join company pension schemes, Standard Life says.

Social media is a fantastic way to get people online and interested in their pensions, Standard Life says.

Standard Life self-invested personal pension and group SIPP customers can now invest directly in gold bullion.

Mercer has signed up three of the UK's biggest corporate benefit providers to launch a corporate wrap platform to meet the rapidly changing market place.

A third of employers say abolition of the default retirement age will prompt them to better promote their company pension scheme, Hargreaves Lansdown says.