Standard Life Shares

ReportInvestor

Maybe. Maybe not.

You are going to have to decide whether to sell before or after the September 27th results, GG.

jonray

Any guesses for Monday as Standard Life enter the FTSE 100. Closed today at £2.70 after the closing auction so i reckon there has been institutional interest after the closing bell. Could be wrong though (normally am when it comes to shares)

Yorkshireman_3

jonray wrote:

Any guesses for Monday as Standard Life enter the FTSE 100. Closed today at £2.70 after the closing auction so i reckon there has been institutional interest after the closing bell. Could be wrong though (normally am when it comes to shares)

Im still reasonably confident that we will see £3.00 soon - is it the 27th of this month we get up to date results of SLs position?

epninety

Closed today at £2.70 after the closing auction so i reckon there has been institutional interest after the closing bell. Could be wrong though (normally am when it comes to shares)

Just a bit. According to Reuters, 60M (!) shares traded after 4pm lifted the price from 2.66 back to 2.70.
Volume of 179M traded today.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/stocks/Quote.aspx?symbol=SL.L

mad

Thanks for that epninety. I have to admit I did not understand how it could go up after 'closing bell' (Still Don't)

I am holding for the £3 a share ........My hunch and it is a hunch is that the opening price was way off the mark as the shares originally had a top value for floatation of 2.90 (More like it)

Anyway that's probably put the mockers on them. Keep up the good work RI, GG etal

jonray

I have a limit order to sell at 275p which could be hit pretty soon once the big boys wade in. As I always sell too early (not deliberately!!!), I think you may well make a tidy sum at 300p mad. I need the cash to roll into BP. where I think there may be a bit of cash to be made soon.

ReportInvestor

Stunning performance from Standard Life Investments in 2005/6 continues

"......Jacqueline Kerr, SLI's investment director, said: ".....Bearing in mind quarter two of 2006 revealed a 270 per cent gross increase in mutual fund sales over the same period in 2005, it's clear investors are recognising our ability to perform."

And if you scroll up the link:

"....Standard Life Investments has been ranked sixth [up from eighth] in the latest influential survey of global fund managers based on net institutional assets accumulated outside the United States....."

This is important for our company in the long term [and in the run up to those interim results on September 27th] as with profits business [not just at Standard] is not going to thrive in future. Standard have some top managers ; retail investors, IFAs and pension funds all seem to be hitching a ride as SLI climbs up the league tables .

Of course, it's probably already factored into the share price. But continued good news is always better than bad news. All companies would like to "manage the market" in this way - but not all are able! Will Standard Life keep it up?

ReportInvestor

Investors' Chronicle of Friday 15 September rates the shares "good value" @ 271p

They had previously used the same rating on 14 July @ 246p.

ReportInvestor

Yahoo - Standard's inauspicious start on entering the FTSE100

There were down 3p on their FTSE debut..

Is it better to travel than to arrive?

Elswhere on Yahoo it was reported that:
"....traders said the stock had been over-bought in the run-up to its inclusion ...."

They were one of the main fallers, while the FTSE stayed in positive territory.

Yorkshireman_3

ReportInvestor wrote:

Yahoo - Standard's inauspicious start on entering the FTSE100

There were down 3p on their FTSE debut..

Is it better to travel than to arrive?

Elswhere on Yahoo it was reported that:
"....traders said the stock had been over-bought in the run-up to its inclusion ...."

They were one of the main fallers, while the FTSE stayed in positive territory.

Cheer Up

---

tomorrows another day