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(582KB) Moving online
Standard Life has around 1.5 million shareholders in over 50 countries around the world. And, as a plc, we have a responsibility to keep you – our shareholders – up-to-date with the latest news about our business. We want to do this in a way that suits you, and makes it easy for you to get the information you need quickly. And because we want to do our bit for the environment, we also want to use and transport as little paper as possible. That’s why we’ve been aiming to keep more of you updated online – by email and on our website.
Saving tonnes of paper
Over a million of you no longer receive paper copies of the Annual Report and Accounts and AGM guide – and over half a million of our shareholders have given us their email address to receive all their shareholder communications electronically.
Fewer than 6% of our shareholders have chosen to receive all their communications in paper format. If all these shareholders decided to view the Annual Report and Accounts and AGM guide online instead of receiving paper copies, it would help us save around an extra 93 tonnes of paper, which would cost about £120,000.
Our paper savings and forward thinking approach to shareholder communications won us an ICSA (Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators) award for the ‘Most Innovative Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility’ in 2007.
Saving paper is just one of the ways we are fighting climate change.
Find out more in our Corporate Responsibility Report
‘At Standard Life we want to do our bit for the environment by asking our shareholders to switch to paper-saving communications. We only want to send you the shareholder information you want to receive – and in a way that suits you. The good news is that UK company law has been updated, so it’s now even easier for us to send you shareholder information by email or make it available to you on a website’.
Gill Baker, Shareholder Manager