Recent changes and important updates
We want to keep you up to date with any fund changes and updates. Below you can see specific fund changes or updates and find useful documents that give some more detail on the changes:
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Fund news
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News about a Standard Life Pension fund
We’re closing the SL abrdn Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies Pension Fund
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News about some Standard Life funds
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News about some Standard Life funds
We’re making changes to the following funds:
- SL Janus Henderson European
Growth Pension Fund (fund code - 1P) - SL Janus Henderson European
Growth Life Fund (fund code 5C)
- SL Janus Henderson European
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News about some Standard Life funds
We’re closing the following SL M&G funds:
- SL M&G Property Portfolio Pension Fund (fund code – 1M)
- SL M&G Property Portfolio Life Fund (fund code – 3F)
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News about some Standard Life funds
We’re making changes to some SL abrdn funds:
- SL abrdn UK High Income Equity Pension Fund (fund code – 88)
- SL abrdn Multi-Asset Pension Fund (fund code – KL)
- SL abrdn UK High Income Equity Life Fund (fund code – L9)
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News about some SL abrdn Global Absolute Return Strategies Funds
We’re making changes to the following SL abrdn Global Absolute Return Strategies Funds:
- SL abrdn Global Absolute Return Strategies Pension Fund (fund code - YX)
- SL abrdn Global Absolute Return Strategies Life Fund (fund code – YY)
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News about some Standard Life funds
We’re updating the name and investment policy of the SL Jupiter Multi-Asset Income Fund.
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News about some Standard Life funds
We’re updating the investment objectives and investment policy of our SL Columbia Threadneedle Funds
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News about a Standard Life fund
Fund manager UBS have confirmed that the fund name and investment objective changes to their Global Optimal Pension Fund proposed for September 2023 are not being made.
There will be no change to the SL UBS Global Sustainable Equity Pension Fund name and investment objective.
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News about a Standard Life fund
We’re making changes to the SL Nordea Global Gender Diversity Pension Fund
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News about Standard Life investments
August 2023
We’re changing the name and descriptions of some of our pension investments.What’s happening?
From 30 September 2023 we’re changing the name and descriptions of our Sustainable Focus funds and profiles and some of our Sustainable Multi Asset funds.
You don’t need to do anything if you are happy with the changes being made. We’ll update our literature with the new fund name and description changes from October.What funds and lifestyle profiles are impacted?
Use this link for the full list of the impacted funds plus answers to some common questions. -
News about Standard Life funds
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News about some Standard Life funds
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News about some Standard Life funds
We’re making changes to the following funds:
- SL Jupiter Corporate Bond Pension Fund (fund code – 1C)
- SL Jupiter Corporate Bond Life Fund (fund code – LX)
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News about some Standard Life funds
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News about some Standard Life funds
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News about a Standard Life fund
We’re closing the SL abrdn Multi-Manager Cautious Managed Portfolio Life Fund (fund code – 9B).
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News about the SL M&G European Corporate Bond Funds
We’re updating the name and description of the SL M&G European Corporate Bond Funds:
- SL M&G European Corporate Bond Pension Fund (fund code – FFAA)
- SL M&G European Corporate Bond Life Fund (fund code – BFDD)
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News about the SL abrdn Global Income Equity Pension and Life Fund
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News about a Standard Life fund
We’re closing the SL abrdn Global Focused Pension Fund (fund code – KS).
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News about the SL VT Argonaut European Alpha Pension fund
We’re closing the SL VT Argonaut European Alpha Pension Fund (fund code – 2P).
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News about the SL abrdn Emerging Markets Opportunities Equity Pension/Life Funds
We’re updating the name and objective of the following funds:
- SL abrdn Emerging Markets Opportunities Equity Pension Fund (fund code – IKPL)
- SL abrdn Emerging Markets Opportunities Equity Life Fund (fund code – CCPI)
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News about the SL abrdn American Unconstrained Equity Pension Fund
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We're making changes to some of our fund descriptions
These changes will give us more flexibility in how we will be able to manage the funds listed below:
- Standard Life UK Equity Pension Fund (fund code – FN)
- Standard Life UK Equity Select Pension Fund (fund code – HR)
- Standard Life North American Equity Pension Fund (fund code – FK)
- Standard Life Overseas Equity Pension Fund (fund code – GZ)
- Standard Life International Equity Pension Fund (fund code –) FO
- Standard Life Global Equity 50:50 Pension Fund (fund code – HT)
- Standard Life Global Equity Select 60:40 Pension Fund (fund code – FX)
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We're closing some Standard Life Funds
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News about the SL abrdn Dynamic Multi Asset Growth Pension Fund
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News about SL SLI Strategic Bond funds
We’re updating the names and descriptions of the following funds:
- SL SLI Strategic Bond Life Fund (fund code – Z4)
- SL SLI Strategic Bond Pension Funds (fund code - ZT)
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News about SL abrdn UK Growth Equity funds
We’re updating the names and descriptions of the following funds:
- SL abrdn UK Growth Equity Pension Fund (fund code – BL)
- SL abrdn UK Growth Equity Life Fund (fund code – J1)
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News about SL abrdn UK Opportunities Equity funds
We’re updating the names and descriptions of the following funds:
- SL abrdn UK Opportunities Equity Pension Fund (fund code – K6)
- SL abrdn UK Opportunities Equity Life Fund (fund code – L0)
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News about SL Aberdeen European Corporate Bond Fund
Our Standard Life abrdn funds invest in underlying funds managed by abrdn. abrdn are making some changes to their funds and we’re updating our fund names and descriptions in line with these changes. From 31 January, we’ll be changing the fund name and descriptions of the following:
SL Aberdeen Standard European Corporate Bond Institutional Pension Fund (fund code – 3O)
SL Aberdeen Standard Total Return Credit Pension Fund (fund code - ACMP)
SL Aberdeen Standard Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies Pension Fund (fund code – BFCF)
SL Aberdeen Standard China Equities Pension Fund (fund code – DDMC)
SL Aberdeen Standard European Corporate Bond Life Fund (fund code – FFAC)
SL Aberdeen Standard European Smaller Companies Pension Fund (fund code – GGPF)
SL Aberdeen Standard European Corporate Bond Pension Fund (fund code – MAPI)
SL Aberdeen Standard Global Corporate Bond Pension Fund (fund code – NNLH)
SL Aberdeen Standard Global Equity Pension Fund (fund code – V6) -
Closure of the SL Aberdeen Standard Emerging Markets Focused Equity Pension Fund
We’re closing the SL Aberdeen Standard Emerging Markets Focused Equity Pension Fund (fund code – ADPL).
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News about Standard Life funds
We're updating charges for some of our funds
We are reducing the Annual Fund Management Charge (AMC) for :
SL Janus Henderson Sterling Bond Pension Fund (fund code – 1S)
SL Janus Henderson Sterling Bond Life Fund (fund code – 8V)These funds invest in underlying funds managed by Janus Henderson.
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We're closing the SL Aberdeen Standard European Focused Equity Pension Fund
We are closing the following fund:
SL Aberdeen Standard European Focused Equity Pension Fund (fund code – NANL).
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We’ve made a slight change to the name of our Liontrust fund
We will be removing ‘LF’ from the fund name - The SL LF Liontrust UK Equity Pension Fund (fund code - CZ). This slight change is also reflected in the fund description. There is no change to the risk profile or investment objective of the fund.
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Reduction in charges to the SL Schroder UK Alpha Plus Pension Fund
We've reduced the charges for the SL Schroder UK Alpha Plus Pension Fund (fund code - CN).
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News about our Janus Henderson Property funds
Janus Henderson suspended their fund on 3 March 2022, and will be closing the fund.
As a result of this, we’ve placed a suspension on the SL Janus Henderson UK Property Pension and SL Janus Henderson UK Property Life Fund. We’ll be closing our funds in line with Janus Henderson.
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News about some Standard Life funds
We’re changing the name and description our SL Macquarie Global Infrastructure Securities funds.
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