• Introducing Standard Life Corporate Investment Solutions (CIS), the new name for Standard Life’s institutional investment platform, formerly Phoenix Corporate Investment Services
     

Standard Life has rebranded its institutional investment platform as Standard Life Corporate Investment Solutions (CIS), formerly Phoenix Corporate Investment Services, to better reflect its role as a strategic solutions provider.

The new identity reinforces the platform’s closer alignment with the Standard Life brand and reflects its expanding role, not only as an investment services provider, but as a strategic partner to institutional and wealth clients, developing innovative solutions to help navigate an increasingly complex pensions landscape.

CIS supports pension scheme trustees, advisers and other institutional clients with tailored investment solutions across trust-based and unbundled pension arrangements. It provides the architecture for clients to invest across an unrestricted investment universe, with flexible fund selection and investment reporting to meet evolving scheme and governance needs.

The UK pensions market is undergoing significant structural change, driven by consolidation in defined contribution schemes, growing interest in private markets, and defined benefit schemes progressing towards endgame strategies such as buyout or long-term run-on. In response, the CIS business continues to evolve its proposition, with a focus on investment innovation, simplified member journeys and strengthened governance.

This shift has already been reflected in a series of platform enhancements, including enabling DC schemes to access private markets through blended fund structures, supporting the development of new retirement income strategies within master trusts, and strengthening trustee oversight through enhanced investment reporting. 

Jess Williams, Head of Standard Life Corporate Investment Solutions, said: “This rebrand reflects the fundamental shift in what our clients need from their investment platforms. While we’ll still be known to many as CIS, the adoption of solutions while subtle, is hugely important in terms of how the business is developing. Clients are operating in a far more complex environment, shaped by consolidation, evolving investment opportunities and increasing governance demands. Our role is no longer just to provide efficient administration, but to work alongside clients as a strategic partner, helping them navigate change and make informed decisions that support better member outcomes. 

“Under the Standard Life brand, we are bringing together investment expertise, robust platform infrastructure and data led insight to help schemes and their advisers manage complexity and governance more effectively. 

“Looking ahead, we will continue to support clients through key moments of change, from helping master trusts scale and enabling asset transitions and consolidation, to supporting defined benefit schemes as they plan for buyout or long term run on. Our focus is on providing practical, flexible solutions that help clients respond with confidence as the pensions landscape continues to evolve.”
The CIS rebrand follows Phoenix Group’s transition to Standard Life plc in March 2026, bringing one of the UK’s most trusted retirement brands to the forefront.

 

Notes to editors:

About Standard Life Corporate Investment Solutions
Standard Life Corporate Investment Solutions (CIS) is a leading institutional investment platform provider, with over 25 years’ experience. It partners with some of the UK’s largest Defined Contribution, Defined Benefit and Master Trust pension schemes, delivering flexible and tailored investment solutions designed to support clients’ strategic objectives and improve outcomes for scheme members. 

CIS provides access to an extensive range of funds through established relationships with more than 80 fund manager groups, alongside blended and white labelled fund capabilities that enable trustees and their advisers to deliver their evolving investment strategies. The platform also offers flexible performance and regulatory reporting to support evolving governance requirements. 

CIS is part of Standard Life plc, one of the UK’s leading retirement savings and income businesses, combining specialist platform expertise with the scale, stability and resources of a FTSE 100 company.

About Standard Life
Standard Life is a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement saving and income.
We are proud to manage around c£317bn in assets on behalf of our 12 million customers, and we champion the belief that everyone's journey to and through retirement can be better. 

With our focus entirely on retirement savings and income we want to be the business that people trust to guide their retirement journey, helping our customers achieve better outcomes and greater financial security in later life. 

As a FTSE 100-listed group we are using our size, expertise and influence to shape the world our customers will retire into, and are committed to helping three million customers by 2035, take action towards a better retirement. 

Standard Life is a responsible investor with a clear commitment to supporting a more sustainable future. The company has achieved its net zero goal across its emissions for 2025 and is working towards net zero investment portfolios by 2050 or sooner.

Standard Life is recognised as a leading employer, with long-standing accreditation as a Living Wage Employer, Living Pension Employer and Carer Positive Exemplary Employer and in 2025 became one of Britain’s Most Admired Companies in 2025.

 

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