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News reports that SLA is selling it�s insurance arm to Phoenix in a cash and equity deal worth �3 billion. Will hold 20% of Phoenix as a result. Also reports that Gerry Grimstone will be leaving next year. Going to be a busy day tomorrow I think!!!
Where did you find that info? Nothing on their website.
Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Standard Life Aberdeen Plc have fallen out after talks to merge their insurance businesses fell apart. But the two have left the door open to overcoming their differences and getting the deal back on track. News of the failed talks fills in some of the background to Lloyds's announcement last week that it plans to pull 109 billion pounds ($153 billion) of insurance assets managed by SLA. That contract predated Standard Life's merger with Aberdeen last year. The merger of the two fund managers created a "material" competitor, which Lloyds said allowed it to annul the arrangement. In a statement, Lloyds said it would seek a different partner to manage the cash pile. But it also praised Aberdeen's stewardship of the assets, and said it would "welcome their participation in the review if Standard Life Aberdeen is able to resolve the competition issue." In other words, if the insurance dalliance can be put back on track, then that 109 billion pounds might not walk out of the door. The discussions faltered because Lloyds wanted majority control -- and presumably a bigger share of the profits -- while SLA was pushing for an equally-owned joint venture. Insurance contributed 822 million pounds of first-half 2017 revenue at Lloyds and 408 million pounds of pretax income, representing a bit less than 10 percent of both measures. The breakdown of the talks means Lloyds executives will be busy rewriting the slides for the strategy day the company is scheduled to host on Wednesday. A merger of its insurance unit with SLA, which the pair began to discuss in mid-2017, would have been the center-piece. SLA, meantime, reports its first post-merger results on Friday. Lloyds's announcement last week that it was planning to withdraw its insurance assets wiped 7.5 percent off SLA's share price that day, though it's recouped some of those losses in the two most recent trading sessions. Investors, it seems, aren't keen on seeing almost a fifth of SLA's total assets under management disappear, even though the low margins on the mandate means the knock-on hit to SLA's profit will only be about 5 percent. Lloyds, though, may struggle to find another manager willing to take on such a low-fee asset pool. "There's still a possibility that we will manage the money," SLA co-CEO Martin Gilbert told Bloomberg Television last week. If the pair can build an insurance merger on terms acceptable to both, that possibility may become a reality.
DHL said on Monday: "Due to operational issues a number of deliveries in recent days have been incomplete or delayed." The company has said it was working "to rectify the situation as a priority and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused".
... in about 85th place based on the current price. Next review in March i believe.
Nothing has been announced yet, but Full Year Results were on the 18th May last year. Intended dividend announced at the same time and then passed at their AGM (which was on the 20th July in 2017).
Another acquisition.
Dividend payment tomorrow.