Standard Life Investments - Leading Investment Solutions

Standard Life Investments provides investment solutions to a broad customer base including a significant number of pension funds and other institutions. Our robust investment process, highly experienced investment personnel and strong performance, has attracted record flows of new institutional investment.

With an established reputation in UK equities, our broad range of institutional capabilities also includes overseas equities, fixed interest, property, cash management, liability-driven investments, private equity and DC investment solutions.

TAILORED FIXED INCOME SOLUTIONS

Standard Life Investments is one of the foremost fixed income managers in the UK, managing over £39 billion in government bonds, inflation-linked bonds and corporate bond strategies covering the entire credit spectrum.

Consistent and repeatable out performance places us as one of the leading UK fixed income houses (according to Mercers MPA Survey). We offer a broad range of investment solutions to our clients in both pooled and segregated strategies.

DYNAMIC LIABILITY-MANAGED INVESTMENTS

Proven investment professionals like Standard Life Investments can offer clients bespoke solutions specifically tailored to their scheme's liabilities while helping to address any deficit. Standard Life Investments’ liability managed credit funds offer both cash flow matching and duration / interest rate hedging flexibility.

This strategy is available through pooled investment with bespoke segregated investment solutions also available. These strategies offer a unique approach to one of the key challenges facing pension schemes today.

INVESTING FOR ABSOLUTE RETURNS

Absolute return investment offers strategic diversification from bonds and equities and can offer a strong foundation within a high returning liability-driven investment strategy. Standard Life Investments manages over £1 billion in pooled and segregated absolute return strategies.

Our Global Absolute Return Strategies Fund is available for pooled investments and offers both risk diversification and the potential for growth through capital and income regardless of market conditions. The fund aims to outperform Libor* by 4% annually, net of fees.

INNOVATION IN REAL ESTATE

When it comes to successful property investment, scale matters. Standard Life Investments is one of Europe’s largest property managers, giving us access to some of the best real estate deals available.

Our reputation for strong performance and client service has been enhanced by the success of our Select Property and European Property Growth Funds and we continue to lead the market in the development of specialist property products including listed real estate, global REITs and high alpha property funds.

ACTIVE CASH MANAGEMENT

In financial markets, cash is no longer a forgotten asset. Many corporate treasurers, amongst others, are seeking out specialist management of cash deposits to achieve the optimum combination of return, security and liquidity.

As one of Europe’s leading managers of money market funds, Standard Life Investments recognises cash as a distinct asset class, deserving of the same specialist skills and active management typically applied to bonds, equity and property investments.

Our range of offshore money market funds are Aaa/Mr1+ rated by Moody’s and offer outstanding performance in a range of currencies. Our first class customer service comes from a team with over 90 years' accumulated experience.

DC INVESTMENT SOLUTIONS

To meet the needs of Defined Contribution (DC) pension clients, Standard Life Investments has developed a flexible and efficient investment platform offering access to a wide range of funds across a range of asset classes and investments styles.

The platform offers funds from Standard Life Investments plus a wide choice of external manager funds. Larger schemes can create their own bespoke funds and all clients can benefit from expert client service and a range of additional service features including bespoke client websites and quarterly fund reports.