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Standard Life plc is a long-term savings and investment business, with headquarters in Edinburgh and operations around the globe. It has 1.2 million shareholders in more than 50 countries 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Standard Life )〕 and 4.5 million customers worldwide, with a further 20 million customers through joint ventures in China and India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=London Stock Exchange Market News )〕 ==History== The Standard Life Assurance Company was established in 1825 and was reincorporated as a mutual assurance company in 1925.〔(Standard Life history: One of the first Empire builders ) The Scotsman, 2 September 2010〕 During the 19th century it opened offices in Canada, India, Shanghai and Uruguay.〔 In 2006 demutualisation took place and the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange.〔(Standard Life policyholders rush to cash in on flotation ) The Guardian, 24 September 2006〕 The company sold Standard Life Bank plc to Barclays plc in January 2010〔(Barclays buys Standard Life Bank for £226m ) Daily Telegraph, 26 October 2009〕 and then acquired the remaining 75 per cent stake in Threesixty, a financial advisory support business, that it did not already own for an undisclosed sum in March 2010.〔(Standard Life takes full control of Threesixty ) The Scotsman, 15 March 2010〕 It sold its healthcare division to Discovery Holdings, a South African business, in May 2010〔(Standard Life sells healthcare division ) BBC News, 11 May 2010〕 and went on to buy Focus Solutions Group, a financial software company, for £42m in December 2010.〔(Standard Life buys Focus for £42m ) BBC News, 7 December 2010〕 In February 2013, the company announced that it had acquired the private client division of Newton Management Limited, a UK wealth management unit of BNY Mellon, in a deal worth up to £83.5 million. In March 2014, it was announced that Standard Life was in advanced talks to purchase rival Phoenix Group Holdings’ Ignis Asset Management for around £400 million. Towards the end of the month, Standard Life completed the acquisition for a fee of £390 million. In September 2014, Standard Life agreed to sell its Canadian operations to The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation.〔(Manulife to buy Standard Life's Canadian assets for $3.7 billion ). Reuters, 4 September 2014〕 It completed this sale on 30 January 2015 for a cash consideration of C$4.0bn. The transaction included a Global Collaboration Agreement where Manulife will seek to distribute Standard Life Investments' funds in Canada, the US and Asia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CityAM News - Disposal of Canadian Companies )〕 In a round-up of 2014 business, pre-tax profits rose by 19% to £604m, fee-based revenue during the year grew 14% to 1.43bn, and over 340,000 auto-enrolment customers were added. The pay and bonus of Chief Executive, David Nish, rose by 23% to almost £5.5m.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - Standard Life reports sharp rise in operating profit )〕 In February 2015, Standard Life announced it was launching a wholly owned, UK-wide, financial advice business saying it was “responding to fundamental changes that were driving unprecedented demand for advice from customers”. In doing so, it confirmed that it had entered into an agreement with Skipton Building Society to purchase Pearson Jones, a firm of financial advisers and paraplanners, and this acquisition was completed in May 2015 when the name of its new financial advice business was announced as “1825” – a reference to the year Standard Life was founded. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Standard Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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