- Why choose Standard Life?
- Awards
Award winning workplace pension provider
Provider of the Year
“This provider impressed the judges on so many levels - its drive towards improving financial inclusion, its development of industry-wide solutions, its pioneering research and its strong customer support and client satisfaction."
Pensions Age Awards, 2025
Master Trust
“This Master Trust stands out from the crowd for so many reasons - its innovative solutions to meeting members' evolving and diverse needs; its support for employers; its thought leadership, its strong investment performance, administration platform and more.”
Pension Age Awards, 2025
Customer Service
“What stood out most was how deeply the team cares about making a dfference for their customers.”
UK Customer Experience Awards, 2025
Financial wellbeing
"This category’s winner had introduced a comprehensive financial education and wellbeing strategy – one that has driven a surge in member engagement with pensions and savings."
Workplace Savings and Benefits Awards, 2025
Client Analytics
"Standard Life's Client Analytics platform has given employers a real-time ability to understand where members are predicted to fall within the PLSA's Retirement Living Standards. The firm's innovations to empower employers and engage members has helped contribute to significantly increased fund values."
Workplace Savings and Benefit Awards, 2024
Retirement Solutions
"Standard Life's innovative decumulation approach transforms retirement for UK savers. It addresses financial pressures and changing retirement patterns, where one in seven retirees return to work.."
Corporate Adviser Awards, 2025
Industry ratings
Our Master Trust, GFRP and GSIPP workplace pensions are rated 5 star by Defaqto, and in 2025 we received a clean sweep of gold awards across our workplace pension and financial wellness offering by Benefits Guru, powered by Financial Technology Research Centre.