The Fund Info page provides fund prices, fund performance and fund factsheets for Skandia's internal fund range.
This 'Help' page is a guide to using the Fund Info page. Select one of the topics below for more information:
The filters on this page help get the information you want.
Narrow your search by using a combination of filters. The more filters you apply, the shorter your fund results list will be. Apply too many filters and your search may not find any funds at all!
After choosing the filters, select 'get fund prices' or 'get performance & factsheets' depending on the information you require.
You must select an option from this filter. If you select Skandia Life, you must also select an option from the Fund type filter.
Select the fund manager you require.
Refine your search further by also applying the 'sector' filter. For example, you may want to find all Framlington funds which are also in the UK Funds sector.
Select the sector you require.
Refine your search further by also applying the 'fund manager' filter. For example, you may want to find all UK Funds which are also managed by Framlington fund manager.
To find a specific fund, enter its Skandia fund identification number if you know it. This is normally a 5 digit number - i.e. 95035.
Although the currency filter appears on this page, the majority of Skandia's fund range is UK sterling.
If you know the fund's name, enter it in this filter.
Each fund in Skandia's fund range belongs to one of the following Skandia fund categories:
Select the fund category from this filter.
Choose how many funds are displayed on-screen at one time - i.e. 20 funds per page, 50 funds per page, 100 funds per page, 200 funds per page, or all funds. If your computer has a slow connection speed, you may want to choose 20 or 50 funds per page, to reduce the time spent waiting for the fund results to display.
Remember also that the more filters you apply, the shorter your fund results list will be.
The 'display' filter personalises the way funds are shown.
Tick the 'My fund' box against funds that you want to review.
By choosing 'my funds first' in the 'display' filter, the ticked funds will appear at the top of the results list each time you visit the Fund Info page. To change or cancel your selection, un-tick the funds.
By choosing 'my funds only' in the 'display' filter only the ticked funds will appear in the results list each time you visit the Fund Info page. To change or cancel your selection, un-tick the funds that are no longer required.
If you have not ticked any funds as 'my funds', select 'all filtered funds' from the 'display' filter.
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This filter only applies if you want to view fund performance information. Use this filter to choose the time period over which you want to view how your selected funds have performed. 5-year performance figures will always be displayed where this performance history is available.
Please note: Due to the regulation of how fund performance data is shown, if a fund has less than 12 full months of performance history, no fund performance data will be shown at all for that fund.
We endeavour to update fund prices by 12 noon each working day.
The fund prices table shows the following information:
Depending on the size of your screen, you may have to use the horizontal scroll bar to see the whole width of the fund prices table.
My funds - tick the 'My fund' box against any funds that you want to review. You can then use the 'display' filter to personalise the way funds are shown in your fund prices list.
Highlight fund - to make it easier to view information in a particular row of the table simply select the arrow icon 
. This will highlight all the fund's price information. Select more than one arrow icon if you want to highlight more than one fund at the same time. To de-highlight a fund, select
the arrow icon again.
Fund name - full name of the fund.
Fund factsheet - HTML - select this icon to open a web page containing fund facts, performance and other information.
Fund factsheet - PDF - select this icon to open a PDF file containing fund facts, performance and other information. If you want to print out the fund factsheet, please use the PDF version rather than the HTML version.
Skandia Fund category - each fund in Skandia's fund range belongs to one of the following Skandia fund categories: Skandia Investment Management or Self Select. Each category is colour coded as follows:
Skandia Investment Management
Self Select
Fund ID - the Skandia identification number applicable to each fund. This consists of a 5-digit fund number. When the fund prices results are downloaded these 5-digit numbers are suffixed by a code to distinguish the fund's company/product type. These codes are shown in the table below, followed by a couple of examples.
| Company/product type | Suffix to 5-digit fund number |
|---|---|
| Skandia Life - Life funds | SL1 |
| Skandia Life - Pension Initial price funds | SI1 |
| Skandia Life - Pension Single price funds | SI2 |
| Skandia Professional - Pension funds | PI1 |
Fund Type - for example: Life, Pension
Currency - This defaults as Sterling.
Bid price - Price used when cancelling units to pay for benefits and any Policy Administration Charges.
Offer price - Price used to allocate units when you pay a premium.
Unit price - This only applies to single price pension products. A single price pension plan is one where the plan number is prefixed by any of the following characters: PP6, EP6, TI6, DA6, BB6.
Where a long list of funds is displayed and you have chosen to view the fund results list in pages, you can page through the list by selecting 'Next' at the bottom of the table.
Alternatively, view all the funds on a single page (if you have not already chosen this from the 'funds per page' filter). Select 'view on single page' at the bottom of the table. The page will refresh to show all funds listed on one page with a scroll bar allowing you to move through the whole list.
Download the fund prices list for use in a customised excel file or back office application by selecting 'download this fund list' and following the instructions.
The fund performance and factsheet table shows the following information:
Use the horizontal scroll bar to see the whole width of the fund performance and factsheets table.
My funds - Select the 'My fund' box against any funds that you want to review. Use the 'display' filter to personalise the way funds are shown in your fund prices list.
Highlight fund - to make it easier to view information in a particular row of the table select the arrow icon ().
This will highlight all the performance and factsheet information for a particular fund. Select more than one arrow icon if you want to highlight more than one fund at the same time.
To de-highlight a fund, select the arrow icon again.
Fund name - full name of the fund
Fund factsheet - HTML - select this icon to open a web page containing fund facts, performance and other information.
Fund Factsheet - PDF - select this icon to open a PDF file containing fund facts, performance and other information. If you want to print out the fund factsheet, please use the PDF version rather than the HTML version.
Skandia Fund category - each fund in Skandia's fund range belongs to one of the following Skandia fund categories: Skandia Investment Management or Self Select. Each category is colour coded as follows:
Skandia Investment Management
Self Select
Fund ID - the Skandia identification number applicable to each fund. This consists of a 5-digit fund number. When the fund performance results are downloaded these 5-digit numbers are suffixed by a code to distinguish the fund's company/product type. These codes are shown in the table below, followed by a couple of examples.
| Company/product type | Suffix to 5-digit fund number |
|---|---|
| Skandia Life - Life funds | SL1 |
| Skandia Life - Pension Initial price funds | SI1 |
| Skandia Life - Pension Single price funds | SI2 |
| Skandia Professional - Pension funds | PI1 |
Fund Type - for example: Life, Pension.
Currency - this will always display as Sterling.
% growth over 1 year ending? - there are five columns showing discrete annual percentage growth figures for each fund. Discrete performance is the % growth of an investment during a defined 12 month period. If a fund has less than 12 full months' performance data to the month ended shown in the table, no performance data will show for that fund. This is due to the regulation on display of past performance history.
Cumulative performance % and quartile rank . . . - the final columns displayed in the fund performance and factsheet table will show cumulative percentage growth and quartile rankings for each fund over the performance time periods you selected. 5-year performance figures will always be displayed where this performance history is available. If a fund has less than 12 full months' performance data, no performance data will show for that fund. This is due to the regulation on display of past performance history.
Where a long list of funds is displayed and you have chosen to view the fund results list in pages, you can page through the list by selecting 'next' at the bottom of the table.
Alternatively, view all the funds on a single page if you have not already chosen this from the 'funds per page' filter. Select 'view on single page' at the bottom of the table. The page will refresh to show all funds listed on one page with a scroll bar to move through the whole list.
Download the fund performance list for use in a customised excel file or back office application by selecting 'download this fund list' and following the instructions.
Download the fund prices or fund performance list for use in a customised excel file or back office application by selecting 'download this fund list' and following the instructions.
Follow the steps below to download fund prices:
Step 1 - Select 'Download this fund list'
Step 2 - Open the file or save it to your computer. Select 'Save'.
Step 3 - The 'Save as' window will open automatically. Rename the file so it is more recognisable to you - it may be useful to include the date in the file name, and select a folder on your computer to save it in. Select 'Save'.
Step 4 - Once the file is fully downloaded and you should see the 'Download complete' window.
Step 5 - To open the file straight away, select 'Open' in the 'Download complete' window. Alternatively, select 'close' and then find the file in the folder where you saved it in step 3.
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Self Select is available for all Skandia's investment products except the Actively Managed Fund range.
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