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Here you’ll find all the documentation to support you and your clients with the Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund.
Introducing the Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund
Target Market and Fund Governance
Technical Guide incorporating Key Facts
The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund Fact Sheet
Fund risk profiling matrix
The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund - at a glance
The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund suitability wording
The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund - summary
Client support
A guide for your clients
Technical Guide incorporating Key Facts
Beginners guide to smoothing
The Fidelity Pension – Client Terms
The Fidelity Pension – Doing Business With Fidelity
You can use this video to support your client discussions around how a smoothed fund can work for their pension investments.
If you have any questions or would like more information about the Standard Life Smoothed Pension Return Fund, then please contact Standard Life by email here.
Should your query be related to your use of the platform in relation to selecting this fund please contact us by email here.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can generate an illustration for an investment into the Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund. You can also produce an illustration for existing holdings, including top ups into the fund.
The following client-facing documents are available for the Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund: Illustration, Beginners guide to smoothing, Customer guide, Technical Guide incorporating Key Facts - What you need to know. They can be found here.
The following materials are available to advisers:
ADVISER FACING
- Adviser guide
- Target Market and Product Governance document
- Fund factsheet
CLIENT FACING
- Client guide
- Technical Guide incorporating Key Facts
- Guide to smoothing
- Fund factsheet
You can view the literature here.
They will receive the same documentation they receive when investing in any other fund. Please note, Confirmation Of Transactions are being produced for the Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund.
The fund will be visible in B2B reports, Illustrations, Client Reports and Oneview Statement & Valuations. It will also be visible within the Portfolio X-Ray tool, although the underlying funds will not be shown. As the fund is an accumulation fund, it will not be visible in the Income Report.
Yes, the fund will be shown within back-office reports.
The Smoothed Return Pension Fund has only recently been launched and therefore performance data will not be available for the first six months.