SLI keeps faith with Standard Life heritage

Group enjoyed strong retail inflows over 2006, up 340%, year on year, with income and small-cap funds proving popular with intermediaries

The past 10 years have given us such brands as Aviva, Consignia and Accenture. Yet when Standard Life Investments launched in late 1998, it chose to keep faith with its heritage as the investment arm of life and pensions giant Standard Life, rather than embrace the trend for names with a good ring but no practical meaning. Despite this link with the past however, Standard Life Investments has grown both in size and strength, to the extent that four of the 20 best-performing unit trusts and Oeics in all sectors over one year to 2 April were from the group's stable. Jacqueline Kerr, head of...