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Please explain what "better management" would or should do.

Rather paltry dividend again equalling just over 4% yield, I can do better than that with The Post Office, offering just over 5% at present.

Hoping it stays down until my next wad of cash becomes available shortly.

What are you doing using HL when this outfit gives better value?

Bertram, I wanted to do the same last year but according to LSE the HMRC rules don't allow a straight transfer as one might hope, you have to sell the holding from wherever it currently sits and repurchase it into the ISA. This might sound like LSE making money from you which is true but folk would soon go elsewhere for their transactions if LSE were not being straight with them. I vaguely recall some sort of discount when I gave them my insructions last year.

As for me, it's beyond my comprehension why anyone should sell now that we are past April 5 and approaching ex div date.

Just bought in myself after looking around for somwhere to place a £few thousand this morning. This could well be regarded as a "defence" stock in the not too distant future as there is not much chance of their regular cash flows being affected by anything except a significant fall in energy prices. Not saying that could not happen but they have probably already fallen as much as is likely.

Listen carefully: The selling price of a share increases by 5% during a day; it follows that the "market capital" of the company also increases by 5% in that day irrespective of any other events in that day.

Some of the posts that have appeared on here recently confirm an oft repeated family proverb of mine:- "Much of the population is unable to think clearly and logically and that is why people do things all the time which do not make sense." Putin is a first class example if you want one.

Silly burgers selling again this morning - meaning I will have another chance to pop some in my ISA on monday at a good price.

I guess that by now most have forgotten that a few weeks ago Citi put out a deramping comment which had the effect of pushing down the SP for a week or two. One does wonder how much some rascals made from that little exercise and is yet another warning that so called broker ratings can be very unreliable if not disingenuous.

Only by pride cometh contention

Know I don't agree, you know nothing about the insurance business and that is the problem with much of the garbage which is written on here.

What a silly billy and only weeks away from exdiv of 15 p

Amazing amount of ignorant and ill-inforned garbage being posted on here. It does not seem to enter some heads that insurance is unlike any other business and is known to have a rough time occasionally irrespective of management ability. That is why the Lloyds system of rich "names" exists - so that underwriters know that there is a large pile of wealth to rely upon when disaster strikes as it surely will from time to time.

i paid 216 back in the autumn, what a *** day!

Need to bear in mind that the effect of the premium increases will not really start to arrive until 2024. Interim results will need to be carefully observed and I will wait for them.

What does "poorly run" mean? As a former exec of a large engineering business, I have heard it many times but never heard it explained. I suspect that it is a catch phrase used by the ignorant to explain the occasional bad times which nearly all businesses experience.

Would Mr Winslow have taken the job on if he didn't think it could be sorted?

Ageas obviously not really serious - a paltry 4p improvement. No problem, as DLG's profiits start to improve, we will be back to some decent returns.