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21.04.2008
threesixty serves up Standard Life wrap

threesixty services, the fee-based IFA support services provider, have signed up Standard Life as an Affiliated Platform provider.  Working closely with threesixty, Standard Life has developed a customised wrap solution which will be available exclusively for threesixty clients from 21^st April.

The customised wrap has been developed in conjunction with feedback from threesixty to deliver an enhanced business model supporting some of the key threesixty services such as file checking which lead to significant efficiencies.  Advisers opting for the threesixty wrap will gain access to a range of extra services and functionality, at no additional cost. 

Geoff Towers, Chief Executive, Standard Life Savings Limited, said: "We are delighted to be working with threesixty to deliver this wrap proposition.  The wrap provides advisers with some of the best possible tools and services to help ensure a superb customer experience.

"threesixty are a fresh thinking company who have modernised the support service approach to offer a greater level of service at a realistic cost by really understanding the needs of adviser groups.  We believe this approach fits in very well with Standard Life?s approach to wrap where we have put the adviser at the heart of the development by providing a solution which has the potential to revolutionise the services on offer to customers."   

Phil Young, Partner at threesixty services commented: "We are delighted to have worked closely with Standard Life to enhance their existing wrap solution.  threesixty clients benefit from a full range of constantly expanding services and we were keen to work with a strong provider in the platform space.  We believe this solution will offer advisers a broader service proposition that is fundamentally different to other platforms on offer."

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For further information, please contact:
Paul Keeble
Direct 020 7872 4481
Mobile 0771 248 6387

Notes to Editors

1. The Standard Life wrap achieved the coveted eee rating from the Financial Technology Research Centre (FTRC) for the third time in April 2008.  Standard Life?s wrap is so far the only wrap platform to have achieved a triple-e award from FTRC.  It gained its award by coming top in more than 10 of the FTRC?s survey sections, including data aggregation, fact-find, technical support, client planning tools, and management information.
   
   
2. threesixty is a leading IFA support services provider which has taken a completely clean approach to the task of delivering contemporary solutions for over 500 intermediary firms.  As a fresh thinking company they have modernised the support service approach to offer a greater level of service at a realistic cost.  By utilising technology to streamline adviser businesses, they are able to offer a more individual approach, thereby removing the need for some of the more mundane and costly functions that advisers may currently be paying for.
   
   
3. Standard Life has approximately 7 million customers worldwide and provides an extensive range of products and services, aimed at meeting the financial requirements of customers throughout their lives.
   
   
4. Financial Technology Research Centre (FTRC) is the recognised industry specialist in understanding how to deliver technology solutions that best meet the needs of the adviser community. FTRC produce the e-Excellence ratings, an annual measure of the quality of financial institutions e?commerce services in a range of product areas including Investment, Life & Pensions and Mortgages. For further information on FTRC please contact Ian McKenna, 59/60 Russell Square, London, WC1B 4HP, 020 7863 0863.  Email: ian.mckenna@ftrc.co.uk 

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