F&C Lifestyle fund range goes live with Standard Life

Links to F&C's Lifestyle fund range have been established on all of Standard Life's products. These include Standard Life's Onshore and Offshore Investment Bonds, individual and group pension plans and its Fundzone platform.

The F&C Lifestyle range, launched last year, is a suite of multi-manager funds that follow the asset allocation models derived from Dynamic Planner, a leading third-party risk-profiling tool that is widely used by financial advisers. The innovative range of funds provide advisers with an effective way of addressing some of the challenges of Treating Customers Fairly by ensuring that client portfolios remain appropriately matched to their risk-profile.

F&C has established key distribution partnerships on its Lifestyle range with a number of leading financial services firms including Clarkson Hill, Lighthouse, Paradigm and Thinc Group. The funds are accessible on a range of platforms including AXA, Canada Life, Cofunds, Friends Provident and Standard Life.

Barry Neilson, Director of Business Development at F&C, said: "Establishing links through Standard Life's extensive product platform is an important development for the Lifestyle funds. We are working in partnership with some major firms of advisers and it is attractive to them to have the flexibility to access the funds through a provider of Standard Life's stature."

Allan Rosengren, Joint Chief Executive of Lighthouse Group, commented: "We are pleased to see that the F&C Lifestyle funds have been adopted by Standard Life for both their onshore and offshore products. This is a further promising development for our group and should significantly enhance our ability to grow funds under administration, which is an area we continue to be highly focused upon."