About Standard Life

Helping you create your future
We want all our customers to feel confident about their future wealth and wellbeing. So we’re flexible. We offer products, services and solutions that meet real people's needs – and evolve as these needs change in the future.
Who we are

Established in 1825, Standard Life is a leading provider of long term savings and investments to around 6 million customers worldwide. Headquartered in Edinburgh, Standard Life has around 9,000 employees internationally.
The Standard Life group includes savings and investments businesses, which operate across its UK, Canadian and European markets; corporate pensions and benefits businesses in the UK and Canada; Standard Life Investments, a global investment manager, which manages assets of over £150bn globally; and its Chinese and Indian Joint Venture businesses. At the end of September 2011 the Group had total assets under administration of over £191bn.
Standard Life plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and has approximately 1.5 million individual shareholders in over 50 countries around the world.
All figures at 30 September 2011
Our recent awards
We’re not in business to win awards, but they’re a good indication of how we perform. They include:
Moneywise Pension Awards
2010
Best Personal Pension Provider

