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Why invest with Standard Life Investments?
At Standard Life Investments, our talented and experienced equities teams hand-pick the best stocks for inclusion in our equities portfolios, an approach that has helped us establish an excellent track record across asset classes. With equity assets under management totalling £53.9 billion*, we have both the resources and expertise to meet your clients’ investment requirements over the long term.
What sets us apart?
- We aim to deliver consistent repeatable outperformance without dominant thematic risk.
- The size of our investment team and the scale of our operation allow us to employ extensive resources to research an unbiased universe of stocks without shortcuts or filtering.
- Extensive research capability – we meet over 3,000 companies each year and have continuous research coverage of more than 1,200 stocks.
- A stable team of over 60 equity investment professionals provides global stock coverage. Our experts are united by a common investment language that ensures a consistent approach.
- We have a large credit team that shares its insights with our equity professionals and provides alternative analysis of the companies in which we invest.
- Our differentiated Focus on Change investment philosophy, which is built around anticipating change within companies, is completely style-agnostic. This means it is not biased towards growth, value, quality or momentum stocks only.
- We have strong risk management controls and diversification discipline, which foster a consistent internal culture of high professional standards and integrity.

