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When these awards are made, where do the shares come from? Do they issue new shares which in turn increases total shares in issue? Or do they buy shares on the open market with company (our) money to make the award?

Is their any distinction between ordinary dividend and special dividend for taxation purposes? Ordinary dividends are classed as income and taxed as an income distribution. How are special dividends classed for taxation? Am I right in thinking a special dividend is not classed as income but a return of capital to share holders? If so how is it treated for taxation?

FTSE following DOW down again!

https://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/news/aviva-investors-ceo-sells-250k-stake-as-share-price-recovers/a1482637?ref=wealth-manager-new-latest-news-test1-list

...sold 62,000 shares yesterday? Should we read anything into this?

Thanks for reply Billtrader.

An RNS was released today announcing "Indicative results of Tender Offer"?
Can anyone give a brief description to a green investor what this is all about?

what's new; at close of trading FTSE up, Legal and General up, Direct Line up, and AVIVA DOWN! Logical expectation is that Aviva SP would trickle up until x-divi date, not down?

Benrith - I thought Aviva France sale would not be finalised until end of year? I cant see to much headway from where we are now with SP until the board announce how the excess cash is to be returned to share holders.

DLG today proposed final dividend of 14.7p and also announced a share buy back programme of 100m. No mention of any special dividend? Wonder when we will get any information on how Aviva will return excess cash to share holders?

What credibility do HL have after the Woodford scandal!

Dow opens heading south and FTSE reverses track and follows taking AVIVA with it! What's new!

SP rise running out of steam now; is it being dragged down by market fall today or an initial over reaction to good annual results?

The general consensus to Annual Results so far seems to be very positive. I'm still taking nothing for granted until the market opens, only then will we see if the market likes the results.

Budget tomorrow and final results on Thursday. Both can influence the SP; lets hope the market appreciates the content of both.

I think when 14p is declared as dividend on 4th March then there will be positive movement on SP in the run up to ex dividend date which would be a little over 1 month so assuming no market wobbles along the way SP could rise to 390 - 400?

I thought the 14p was only an estimate from the Board at the time the 7p dividend was declared, with the final decision only being declared at the annual results on 4th March?

DL and L&G both up on market down day but Aviva down? Was expecting Aviva to outperform DL and L&G given the recent news on sales?

SP doing OK up to 09:45 this morning, then big retrace? Any particular reason?

Running out of steam already!