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Standard Life is to shed 48 of the 700 jobs at its healthcare insurance offices in Bournemouth and Stockport. 16-Apr-2009 Standard Life is to shed 69 jobs at its insurance office in Bristol, as well as 34 in Edinburgh, 20 in Watford, 18 in Leeds, 14 in Cambridge, ten in London and eight in Manchester. 26-Feb-2009 Standard Life is to shed 75 jobs in Edinburgh and Bournemouth, as part of a change in its marketing strategy that will also involve the creation of 38 management jobs in Edinburgh. 17-Dec-2008 Standard Life is to acquire Vebnet, the employee benefits company with 78 staff and offices in Edinburgh and London, for £24m. 17-Sep-2008 Standard Life, the Edinburgh-based insurance company, is to close its protection unit with the possible loss of up to 50 jobs. 30-Nov-2007 Standard Life, the Edinburgh-based life and pensions group, is planning to shed a further 1,000 jobs over the next two years, in order to save £100m a year by 2009. 23-Mar-2007 Standard Life is to relocate the headquarters of its Standard Life Healthcare division and 350 jobs from Guildford to Bournemouth, following the acquisition of Bournemouth-based FirstAssist Insurance for undisclosed terms. 21-Sep-2005 Standard Life is to shed a further 100 insurance sales jobs across the country. 26-Nov-2004 Standard Life is planning to close its 17,000 sq ft Tanfield office in Edinburgh, in order to relocate 1,000 staff to other sites nearby. 06-Sep-2004 Standard Life has announced plans to abandon its mutual status and shed a further 1,000 jobs, with the Edinburgh headquarters being hardest hit. 01-Apr-2004 Standard Life is to shed about 360 jobs from its direct sales insurance operation, including 90 at its Edinburgh head office, and ten branches will close. 05-Mar-2004 Standard Life Bank is recruiting an additional 100 staff at its call centre in Edinburgh, following a rise in mortgage lending. 19-Sep-2003 Standard Life has secured a licence to operate in the Chinese life assurance market, and will form a joint venture in the city of Tianjin. 04-Nov-2002 Standard Life is forming a £100m joint venture with Heng-An Life to provide life assurance services in China. 15-Jul-2002 Standard Life Investments, the asset management company, is planning to open its first US office in Boston next year. 29-Nov-2001 The Post Office is planning to launch stakeholder pensions in its 18,000 branches in April, managed by Standard Life. 12-Feb-2001 Standard Life Investments is to set up an office in Hong Kong in order to expand its fund management business into Asia, and is also considering plans to launch a new operation in the US. 06-Dec-2000 Royal & Sun Alliance and Standard Life have won licences to move into the deregulated Indian insurance market, and they will both operate in partnership with local companies. 24-Oct-2000 Standard Life is forming a joint venture with Hannoversche Leben to sell pensions in Germany. 15-Sep-2000 Standard Life has defeated a move to demutualise the business, with only 45.7% of the members who voted supporting demutualisation. 28-Jun-2000 Standard Life, the insurance company, has agreed to demands from campaigners to hold a vote within three months on whether to end its mutual status. 26-Apr-2000 Standard Life Investments has opened a new headquarters in Edinburgh's George Street, and is planning to expand its third party asset management business. 12-Oct-1999 Standard Life Bank is planning to recruit an extra 500 staff during 1999. 05-Jan-1999 Standard Life Bank is moving into the mortgage market in January with a new product called Freestyle. 17-Dec-1998 Standard Life is creating a separate fund management company called Standard Life Investments, and is aiming to raise funds under management from £60bn to £100bn within five years. 11-Nov-1998 Standard Life Bank is to launch a variable rate mortgage this year, and will recruit 200 staff for the new service. 03-Sep-1998 Standard Life, the mutual assurer, has denied reports that it is planning to move its headquarters from Scotland to England in order to avoid any corporation tax that might be imposed by the planned Scottish Parliament. 31-Aug-1998 Bank of Scotland is to stop selling insurance for Standard Life as it wants the freedom to develop its own range of life assurance products selected from a number of insurance companies. 22-Aug-1998 Standard Life has decided against offering the life assurance component of the new individual savings accounts, claiming that its existing life products offer better long-term returns or cheaper premiums. 23-Jul-1998 Standard Life is to restructure its range of unit trusts by cutting charges and converting them into open ended investment companies (Oeics). 02-Jul-1998 Standard Life Bank is planning to launch a nine-minute mortgage in the autumn, including both fixed-rate and variable-rate products. 30-Mar-1998 Standard Life is to set up an investment subsidiary called Standard Life Investment Management to focus on corporate pensions and mutual funds. 25-Feb-1998 Standard Life is moving into the retail banking sector with a direct access savings account and hopes to get 100,000 customers in the first year. 18-Dec-1997 Standard Life has been awarded a licence to open a second office in China, this time in Shanghai, but it does not yet have permission to sell products there. 01-Jul-1997 Standard Life is planning to launch a banking operation in order to exploit the large amounts it pays out in maturing life policies. 29-Apr-1997 Standard Life is expected to soon announce plans to offer savings facilities, personal loans and other banking services. 21-Apr-1997 Standard Life has become the latest UK insurer to open an office in China, but it could be a few years before it is allowed to start trading. 19-Jun-1996 Standard Life is to sell most of its 32% stake in the Bank of Scotland in a secondary offering, which means that a single company is unlikely to make a takeover bid. 11-Jun-1996 Standard Life, the assurance concern, is planning to sell all or part of its 32.2% stake in the Bank of Scotland, but it is expected to go to investors rather than a potential predator. 14-May-1996 Standard Life, the insurer, is looking into the possibility of selling its 32.5% stake in the Bank of Scotland, which is worth over £900m. 13-May-1996 Standard Life is planning to offer deposit accounts later this year by outsourcing the deposit-taking to a bank. 01-Apr-1996 Standard Life is to move into the German market by selling through MLP Finanzdienstleistungen. 20-Sep-1995
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