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Documents to support you and your clients

Adviser support

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

Helping you deliver a life more certain for your retirement clients.

Target Market and Fund Governance

The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund is designed for clients who would benefit from smoother investment returns to, and through, retirement.

Technical Guide incorporating Key Facts

The finer details of how the fund works and the information you need to know before investing.

The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund Fact Sheet

Access all the fund information and associated documents.

Fund risk profiling matrix

The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund risk-mapped by leading independent providers.

The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund - at a glance

A simplified guide to Standard Life’s smoothed fund.

The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund suitability wording

Paragraphs designed to help you when compiling a suitability report to support a personal recommendation.

The Standard Life Smoothed Return Pension Fund - summary

A simplified summary of the smoothed fund provided by Standard Life.

Client support

A guide for your clients

Designed to provide your clients with financial flexibility and a little more certainty to, and through, retirement.

Technical Guide incorporating Key Facts

The finer details of how the fund works and the information your clients need to know before investing.

Beginners guide to smoothing

A factsheet for your clients explaining smoothed funds.

The Fidelity Pension – Client Terms

Disclosure material for the Fidelity Pension.

The Fidelity Pension – Doing Business With Fidelity

Including the Key Features of our Pension.

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.