Standard Life

The five best-selling UK All Companies funds saw more than £1bn in collective inflows in the first two months of the year, confirming UK equities are back at the top of investors' wishlists.

Standard Life Investments' EM managers Alistair Way and Mark Vincent are looking to stocks in the ‘fragile five' countries to generate performance in their funds.

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Analysts expect a number of Ignis funds to merge or close after SLI buys group from Phoenix for £390m

Standard Life has confirmed it will offer 290 discounted ‘superclean' funds on its platform, at an average AMC of 53bps, following months of negotiations.

Henderson Global Investors has scrapped plans for the creation of preferential share classes in order to offer intermediaries a ‘level playing field.'

Kames Capital has poached Dan Churchouse from Standard Life Investments to be its new business development manager covering the London discretionary market.

BlackRock has warned of ‘major risks' to the UK and Scotland if Scots vote for independence in September's planned referendum.

Standard Life has tabled a reported £400m bid for Ignis Asset Management.

Standard Life has opened up its retirement product range to customers with a smaller pot of pensions savings, a day after the Chancellor's pension reforms triggered a sell-off among life insurers.