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Standard Life

Established in Edinburgh in 1825, the Standard Life group is a financial services group whose principal activities consist of the provision of life assurance and pensions, investment management, banking and healthcare insurance products with approximately 10,000 employees spread across the UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Austria, India, Hong Kong and mainland China.

With a global fund management business, Standard Life Investments, with assets under management as at 31 March 2008 of £134.4 billion (figure unaudited) , a bank with £11bn worth of mortgages under management, a private medical insurance company which is one of the largest in the UK and 7 million customers worldwide, the Standard Life group is well placed to deliver a comprehensive range of financial services products and services to its customers.

This wide range of financial products and services is designed to meet the changing needs of customers. These include savings, investments, mortgages, healthcare products and individual and corporate pension plans.

These products and services are sold through financial advisers and direct from the company.

On 10 July 2006, after 80 years as a mutual company, The Standard Life Assurance Company demutualised and Standard Life plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange. This followed a 98% in favour vote by those members who voted on the company's proposal to demutualise and float.

Board Directors

Gerry Grimstone (Chairman)
Sandy Crombie (Group Chief Executive)
Kent Atkinson
Lord Blackwell
David Nish
Jocelyn Proteau
Keith Skeoch
Hugh Stevenson
Baroness McDonagh
Colin Buchan
Crawford Gillies

Standard Life House
30 Lothian Road
Edinburgh
EH1 2DH
T:0131 2252552
F:01231 245 7990
www.standardlife.com