Scottish Life introduces ten new funds

2 November 2009
Scottish Life, the pensions specialist arm of the Royal London Group, has introduced ten new funds to its core fund range. The funds have been introduced in response to feedback from IFAs and market analysis.

The new funds give access to five new investment sectors (Commodities, US Mid Cap, Total Return, Global Property and Global Bonds) and increase the choice in existing sectors. Nine of the funds are actively managed, all of which are OBSR (Old Broad Street Research) rated - two are A-rated; three AA-rated; and four AAA-rated.

The new fund links are:

BlackRock Gold & General
JP Morgan Natural Resources
First State Asia Pacific Leaders
Schroder US Mid Cap
JP Morgan Cautious Total Return
Investec Cautious Managed
Schroder Global Property Securities
Invesco Perpetual Global Bond
Invesco Perpetual Corporate Bond
BGI Over 5 years Index-Linked Gilt Index

The new equity funds can be used in conjunction with Scottish Life's Governed Range. Alternatively, any of the ten new funds can be used by advisers should they wish to construct customised portfolios within their own bespoke investment process. Advisers can, in addition, choose to have these customised portfolios automatically rebalanced by Scottish Life, either monthly, quarterly, half yearly or annually.

Nick Leitch, Head of Investment Marketing at Scottish Life, said: "Our investment proposition offers a strong menu of low-cost options to help with risk profiling, asset allocation, fund picking, rebalancing and governance. The investment market is always evolving and the introduction of these new funds is part of our ongoing commitment to provide advisers and their clients with access to the best available funds, and fund partners, within our overall investment offering.

"The demands on advisers today are clearly significant. Our comprehensive investment proposition has been designed to help them provide a leading-edge product for their clients; and to achieve greater commercial success within their own businesses."