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Why move from HL. Opt out of the automatic dividend reinvestment, you can then reinvest the dividend yourself the same day you receive the dividend.

All will be watching next Thursdays Trading Update now to see if their are any clues as to how they are going to return proceeds of the sales to investors. Hopefully get some positive news then to get the SP moving upwards again.

Any gains made within an ISA are tax free; capital gains, dividends (including special dividends), or interest in cash accounts.

Hi MrMath. That's it sorted, thanks for your help.

Hi sotonspike. I have not elected to have dividends automatically reinvested. Thanks for reply.

I've received my dividend now in my HL account. It is shown as cash in the cash column, but in the amount available to invest column it is not detailed? Any HL account holders know why this is?

Thanks for reply Silverback01.

I am with HL. This is the first time I will be receiving a dividend from a company. Can anyone who also has a HL account advise when the dividend is received and shows up in their account?

Could see a hike in SP tomorrow with dividend payments being reinvested.

"Haven't we been here before?"
Yes we have, but just because the predecessors failed before doe's not mean that the new team will fail also, does it. The new team have gone in a different direction by selling of the none core, less productive components, and now have to come up with a new business model to get the company firing on all cylinders again. They still have their work cut out though because as I have said before, it's easy to get a bad reputation but very hard to shrug it of. But let's at least give them a chance to prove themselves.

It is hard for me to say it, but Aviva should not be singled out and judged as the bad apple in the barrel for cancelling dividends during the pandemic. All the major banks did this, as did Direct Line. I think Legal and General were the only large financial institution that honoured their declared dividend. Some of the other major dividend payers, although paying, rebased their dividends to a far lower level. There is a new captain at the helm now so lets judge Aviva on their performance going forwards from here now that they have completed the pruning and start to restructure their corporate strategy .

The information on the Aviva website is a tad misleading; the 6p dividend was miserly compensation for the final 2019 dividend due to be paid in May 2020 which was stolen from investors by the BOD when Government instructed financials not to pay dividends during COVID Pandemic. The total dividend for 2020 was 7p interim and 14p final , total dividend for year 21p. 21p should be used for calculating dividend yield for 2020, which at an average price paid of 401p is 5.2%. Going forward there will only be 2 dividends per year (not including any specials which may be given out when they decide how to pass excess cash back to share holders). Although that could possibly change as there was a rumour touted a while ago they may be considering paying a quarterly dividend, but that is only a rumour.

Where did you get the information of dividend yield 6.7%, from this website? If as you say your average price is 401p then the current yield at that price is 5.2%.

DOW sneezes, all the other markets catch a cold!

DOW futures currently down, this could take SP sub 400 again today?

So what happened to the much hyped Investor Revolt at the AGM! All resolutions voted on were passed including Directors pay awards!

OH well, appears there is nothing that we don't already know coming from the AGM so will have to be patient and twiddle our thumbs for 3 weeks until the trading update 27th May to see what direction we are going. Expect the SP will stay around this level until then. Hopefully sentiment will change with positive news from trading update and get this dinosaur plodding along in the right direction again!

The AGM is scheduled to start at 14:00 this afternoon; will there be any significant announcements from this to get SP on an upward trend again? How long does the AGM usually take to complete; is it likely to be finished by close of markets today?

Getting a bad reputation is easy! Shrugging it off is not!

If there is any buy back the shares that are purchased should be cancelled, they should not be held in treasury as future bonus awards to members of BOD.