{"id":201,"date":"2013-08-07T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=201"},"modified":"2013-08-07T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:32:05","slug":"standard-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Standard Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Life is the revered Scottish financial institution. It was a mutual life insurer, founded in 1825, and de-mutualised in 2006 and floated on the London Stock Exchange to become a member of the FTSE-100.<\/p>\n<p>Just looking at basic financials, in these <strong>0.5%<\/strong> interest rate times, Standard Life PLC is able to pay a <strong>3.8%<\/strong> coupon on this shares.<br \/>\n[<a title=\"Standard Life Financials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=186960&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=sl\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=186960&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=sl<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A financial giant, with expertise in long term investment, the 2012 annual report, one can collect some salient information.<br \/>\n[<a title=\"Standard Life Annual Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.standardlife.com\/investor\/financial_reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.standardlife.com\/investor\/financial_reports.html<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>page 5: Focus on Emerging Markets: Dubai, India, China and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>page 11: Assets under administration of <strong>\u00a3218.1 Billion<\/strong> (\u00a3218,100 Million)<\/p>\n<p>Page 15: Highly Liquid with \u00a31,064 Million (<strong>\u00a31.064 Billion<\/strong>) in cash and short term debt securities)<\/p>\n<p><strong>page 19: Investment in technology is delivering lower costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>page 126: Investment return of \u00a313,982 Million (<strong>\u00a313.982 Billion<\/strong>) on its investments.<\/p>\n<p>page 136: Investment in property of <strong>\u00a38,565 Million<\/strong> (\u00a38.565 Billion)<\/p>\n<p>page 141: Derivative Financial Instruments held for trading: <strong>\u00a382,979 Million<\/strong> (\u00a382.979 Billion)<\/p>\n<p>A very strong institution with a prudent approach to investment management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Life is the revered Scottish financial institution. It was a mutual life insurer, founded in 1825, and de-mutualised in 2006 and floated on the London Stock Exchange to become a member of the FTSE-100. Just looking at basic financials, in these 0.5% interest rate times, Standard Life PLC is able to pay a 3.8% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}