Standard Life

Scotland voting yes to independence from the rest of the UK would be a "disaster" Novia chief executive - and Scot - Bill Vasilieff has said, less than a month before the referendum.

Standard Life has called for platforms with super clean deals to house alternative share classes in order to aid re-registration.

Platform sales reached a new record in the second quarter, according to a Fundscape report which pointed to Budget reforms as a key driver of the surge in interest.

Potential drawdown clients looking to keep their pension pot invested after April next year will be a "big target" for Standard Life, which earlier announced a near 60% drop in annuity margins for the first half of the year.

Annuity margins at insurer Standard Life were down 59% in the first half of the year due to the sweeping changes to retirement income announced in the Budget, latest results show.

Increasing advisers' average productivity with the use of technology and attracting young talent are the keys to narrowing the advice gap in the wake of declining intermediary numbers, according to Standard Life's Barry O'Dwyer.

The pensions industry must work together to establish an efficient and consistent transfer method or risk having a poorer version inflicted upon it by the regulator, Tom McPhail has said.

Standard Life is to sponsor tennis star Andy Murray for the next three years.

Standard Life has become the second platform to secure cheaper access to Neil Woodford's new fund, after the group negotiated access to the 0.65% AMC share class.

Standard Life has enhanced its wrap platform with the launch of a specialist investment hub aimed at users with discretionary permissions, as it taps into the growing number of adviser firms changing their business models.