Company pensions - employers

Every business needs to plan for the future. Planning for the future financial wellbeing of your staff is one of the most rewarding activities any employer can undertake. A staff pension scheme can help you to:

• Reward your employees – and encourage them to stay with you
• Attract quality staff – and develop your reputation as a good employer
  It can also mean a happier, more positive workforce.

For companies, and for individuals, the need for effective pension planning is greater than ever.

We take the time to understand your individual requirements, so we can deliver solutions that work. We’ll help you implement a plan that engages, informs and empowers your employees.

We’re committed to providing market leading, innovative pension solutions. Our skills and experience are backed by award winning technology, service and support. Standard Life can help you.

Support

Our dedicated teams of experts will be on hand to support you at every step of the way.

• Implementation team – can help to make sure our technology works seamlessly with yours
• Pension experts – to run events that will encourage employees to make the most of their plan
• Service teams –  deal with the day to day needs of your employees making sure they’re always fully supported

Technology

Pension schemes are constantly changing. People join and leave, payments change and funds move. Our technology and support means your employees have the freedom to make changes and keep track of their pensions.

Our management systems have been recognised as leaders for their intelligent design by the Financial & Technology Research Centre in association with Money Marketing.

Dedicated employer website

GroupPensionzone, makes it easy to manage the set up and ongoing administration of your plan. It lets you carry out instant, online, transactions and makes managing your scheme easy.
GroupPensionzone online demonstration

Dedicated employee website

employeezone makes online pension management for employees easy. Your employees can review their details and payments and switch their retirement date and funds. They can also keep tabs on what their plan is worth and use our interactive tools to work out their projected retirement income.
Employeezone online demonstration

Communication and Education

Improved financial understanding means that important messages are less likely to be missed. Our targeted communication and education programme empowers individuals to take control of their financial future. The programme uses employee targeting to:

• Increase engagement
• Demonstrate value
• Build long term relationships.

Our dedicated team of experts can work with you to deliver a programme that engages, informs and empowers your employees.

We’ve used our experience and understanding of pensions to offer you a range of flexible plans to fit your company's unique requirements.

Group Self Invested Personal Pension (GSIPP) and Group Flexible Retirement Plan (GFRP)

These plans give you all the options. You can have our sophisticated GSIPP and our flexible GFRP on their own, or together, on one single easy to manage administration platform. Both products offer:

• GroupPensionzone  – our dedicated employer website
• employeezone – our dedicated employee website
• Targeted employee communication – and education programmes
• Award winning service and support

GSIPP also gives members access to a wide range of investment opportunities.

• Investment choice – includes open ended investment companies (OEICs) and unit trusts, trustee investment plans, stocks and shares and mutual funds
• Income options – such as full, phased or income drawdown
• Sophisticated service technology – that makes even the most complex investment choices simple for your employees to administer

GFRP gives employees a flexible pension plan with high levels of support:

• A high quality plan – that’s easy to administer
• Access to around 150 funds – including funds from different fund providers
• Options to upgrade to GSIPP – and enjoy greater investment flexibility (Additional terms, charges and conditions will apply).

Group Stakeholder Pension Plan

Stakeholder pensions offer a low cost, hard working option.

• Low annual charges – currently capped at just 1%
• Straightforward investment options – with our highly regarded Standard Life sigma insured pension funds
• Investment choice – choose from up to 48 funds, including external funds
• GroupPensionzone  – our dedicated employer website
• employeezone – our dedicated employee website
• Targeted employee communication – and education programmes
• Award winning service and support

By understanding the changing pensions environment, the evolving needs of our clients and continuously listening to members, we build solutions that fit the needs of businesses and staff, well into the future.

Our credentials

• Experience – we’ve been at the forefront of the defined contribution pension market for over 25 years
• Commitment – our 400 dedicated, expert staff make sure you get the support you need
• Customer service – our track record for quality is reflected in the awards we’ve won over many years
• Communication – we can provide one to one client communication and support
• Quality and risk controls – we make the right things happen, first time
• Easy to manage – all of your administration is done on a single platform which is adaptable to your needs
• Tailored solutions - our services are flexible enough to accommodate the needs of any company

Awards

Here's just a selection of the awards we've won recently.

DC Bundled Provider of the Year 2010
FT

DC Bundled Provider of the Year
2010 Professional Pension

Group Pension Provider of the Year
2009 Financial Adviser Awards

Voted 5 star Life & Pensions Provider for 13 consecutive years to 2008
Financial Adviser Service Awards

Voted 4 star Life & Pensions Provider 2009
Financial Adviser Service Awards

Best Group Pension Provider 2009
Corporate Adviser

Best Pension Provider 2004-2009
Money Marketing Awards

Best Group Pension Provider 2008
Financial Adviser Life and Pensions Awards

People's Choice Award for the Company with the best technology, administration and service in our Industry 2007, 2008 & 2009
Pensions Management Administration & Service Awards

Triple eee technology Award for GPP, GSIPP and Group Plan
Money Marketing Financial Technology Research Centre e-Excellence 2009 result

Testimonials

“Standard Life provides an excellent level of service to both client and customer levels. Dedicated points of contact means that effective working relationships are built quickly and sustained to the benefit of both customer and client. Points of contact are cheerful, friendly and very knowledgeable of the Civil Service schemes. All in all, an excellent and professional all-round service.”
John Anderson, Cabinet Office

“Working with Standard Life has been a pleasure; they delivered on all their commitments to an extremely challenging timetable which included the enrolment of over 17000 members into a new pension arrangement.”
Kevin O'Boyle, head of pensions, BT
BT case study (PDF, 98Kb)

“Standard Life appeared to see excellence in employee communication as an integral part of the implementation process and I was pleased to see that you have specialist consultants who assist and help design the most appropriate methods to ensure that the communications process meets the needs of employees and employer alike.”
Grant Foden, European compensation director, Hasbro Europe

“Some examples of the great support from Standard Life were the delivery of bespoke communication material and web based tools, following detailed dialogue with many Centrica stakeholders such as IS, brand, legal, etc. Also their excellent work on all aspects of data exchange to ensure robust procedures have been put in place.”
David Byrne, group pensions manager, Centrica

We know about company pensions, so we can give you a tailor made solution using our award winning products, advanced service and support from highly experienced people.

So whether you're reviewing an existing arrangement, looking to reduce costs or need increased flexibility, we'd love to show you how our experience can help you.

Call us

Contact us on 0845 60 60 075 to see how we can help (call charges may vary).