Shareholder information

Standard Life is a long-term savings and investments business with over 185 years experience. We have around 1.5 million shareholders in over 50 countries and manage C$273.6 billion of assets. Our businesses are based in the UK, Ireland, Canada, mainland Europe and Asia.

Six million customers around the world choose us for life assurance and pensions, investment management and healthcare insurance. Inspired by their needs and changing lives, we offer our customers flexible solutions to build confidence in their future wealth and well-being.

Our aims are to keep adding value for our shareholders and growing our customers’ wealth with strong investment performance and market-leading products that are capital-efficient for our business. Our financial results for 2009 show that we are continuing to achieve this.

Share price

Our shares trade on the London Stock Exchange. To view the latest share price, please visit www.standardlife.com.

Being a shareholder

Owning shares means you own part of a company. The more shares you have, the more of the company you own. You can buy and sell shares in any company that is publicly listed on a stock exchange. Standard Life plc is a publicly listed company, managed by its directors and owned by its shareholders.

Being a shareholder of Standard Life gives you certain important rights such as:

• Attending and voting at the Annual General Meeting
• Receiving shareholder communications
• Receiving dividends, if these are declared and paid

For more information about being a Standard Life plc shareholder visit www.standardlife.com/shareholders.

Sign up for the Standard Life share portal

If you haven’t already done so, why not register for a Standard Life share portal account at www.standardlifeshareportal.com – a fast and easy way to see up-to-date information about your shareholding. From here you can manage your shares online – helping us to reduce the amount of paper we send you and the amount you have to then recycle!

Depending on the type of shareholding you have, you can:

• See how many shares you have and what they are worth
• See details of any transactions
• Update your contact information
• Let us know about changes to your bank details
• Sign up to the Scrip dividend scheme so you can receive any dividend payments in more Standard Life plc shares rather than cash
• Download a range of documents, from terms and conditions to our latest shareholder communications

To get started or to find out more information, just visit www.standardlifeshareportal.com.

Reference to Standard Life in this section of the website is to Standard Life plc.