Standard Life Shares

a8amg

According to my calculations, you'll have awhile to wait till it reaches 345p
Unless they release some very good news.

pauliepie

Hi

Whats this about Bonus Shares?

Are we getting more shares, if so, when and how many.

Also, is it best to ask for a share certificate from computershare.

cheers

paul

gt94sss2

pauliepie wrote:

Whats this about Bonus Shares?

Are we getting more shares, if so, when and how many.

Yes, there are some details here

Basically though, if you received free shares or bought shares in the Preferential Offer,you will get one bonus share for every 20 you hold (i.e. 5% extra) on any shares you continue to hold until the 10 July 2007.

Also, is it best to ask for a share certificate from computershare.

That really depends on how many shares you own.

This can be a good idea as if you ever want to sell your shares as Computershare charge quite a bit in commission - 0.5% or 1% of the value of the shares with a £15 minimum.

Other brokers charge a lot less - for instance Selftrade (who I mention in post #589) charge a flat fee of £12.50 to sell shares.

Therefore you need to work out if the amount of money you would save, is worth moving your shares to a different broker.

One point to note, Computershare do charge £15 for a share certificate or for you to move the shares to another broker.. - so you will have to take that into account. However, along with their referral offer, Selftrade will also reimburse this charge, if you move your shares to them.

Regards
Sunil

gt94sss2

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Standard Life is to provide the Self invested personal pension (Sipp) package for HSBC Bank.

The pension will be distributed via HSBC’s commercial financial planning managers.

Standard Life's Sipp was launched in December 2004 and has attracted assets of more than £3.4 billion from its 20,000 policyholders

Standard Life Assurance chief executive Trevor Matthews said: 'This is another significant step in diversifying our distribution strategy and builds on many important and thriving alliances already in place with other leading companies in the financial sector.'

Mark Hussein, head of commercial investments and insurance at HSBC Bank, said: 'Our commercial customers can now benefit from a SIPP with a minimum contribution of £10k together with Standard Life’s first class service, helping to ensure our customers are financially prepared for their retirement.”

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Not done much for the share price today though!

Regards
Sunil

mad

Shares end week on all time high £3.09. Good news for those of us who are still in.

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&p=&q=q&s=SL.L&m=L

Anyone know why? Apart from FTSE generally being up

I know I should read the thread but when will the dividend be announced

Edit: This is probably it:

Wednesday February 07 Standard Life (LSE: SL.L - news) is set to update shareholders on its latest new business figures on Wednesday and the insurer has some tough competition to beat.

Figures released recently fro Friends Provident (LSE: FP.L - news) and Legal & General (LSE: AP57.L - news) have unveiled a strong rise in new sales of pensions and life insurance.

For the third quarter Standard Life posted a 26% hike in new business sales for the nine months to September, with new business APE sales for the period of £1.12bn from £890m a year ago.

gt94sss2

mad wrote:

I know I should read the thread but when will the dividend be announced

31st May Dividend payment date (Ordinary Shares)
29th May Annual General Meeting
8th May Quarter 1 New Business Announcement
30th March Record date for Dividend (Ordinary Shares)
28th March Ex-Dividend Date for Dividend (Ordinary Shares)
22nd March 2006 Preliminary Results Announcement
7th February 2006 Quarter 4 New Business Announcement

Regards
Sunil

gt94sss2

• Worldwide insurance sales on a PVNBP basis up 47% to £14,263m for full year (2005: £9,675m). APE(1,2) sales up 39% to £1,734m (2005: £1,249m) for full year, with a 56% increase in the fourth quarter of 2006.

• UK Life and Pensions sales on a PVNBP basis up 69% to £11,400m for full year (2005: £6,763m). APE sales up 54% to £1,442m (2005: £939m) for full year, with an 86% increase in the fourth quarter of 2006*.

- Self Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) and drawdown APE sales up 150% to £395m (2005: £158m(2)), including non-insured SIPP sales of £129m (2005: £31m).
- Investment bond APE sales up 66% to £185m (2005: £112m).

• SLI funds under management(3) up 11% to £132.1bn (31 December 2005: £118.8bn). Third party funds under management(3) up 32% to £38.5bn (31 December 2005: £29.1bn).

• Net positive funds flow(4) for UK life and pension products was £3.2bn in 2006.

*Growth was 50% in the fourth quarter excluding a bulk TIP(6) mandate of £84m.
All comparisons above and in narrative below are in sterling unless otherwise stated(5). All sales figures below are on an APE basis unless otherwise stated.
All comparators are with the twelve months or the comparable fourth quarter of 2005 unless otherwise stated.

Group Chief Executive, Sandy Crombie, commented:

'I am very pleased with the Group's sales performance in 2006 which has seen strong growth in every quarter of the year. I believe our successful demutualisation has given Standard Life a platform on which to build continued growth in 2007 and beyond.

More from the 2006 Quarter 4 New Business Announcement

Regards
Sunil

gt94sss2

The markets seem to have reacted well to today's results, with the shares closing at a new high of 312.5p - up 8p on the day..

Regards
Sunil

Gorgeous_George

Is everybody happier with their with-profits policies now?

Mine seems to be doing well at the moment (0.95% increase in surrender value this month).

EDIT: £3.28 would be a significant milestone, representing a 50% increase on the discounted share price.

However, we should remember that initially the share price at flotation was expected to be between £2.40 and £2.90 making £3.28 just a 13% premium on the higher end of the range. Today's closing high would be only an 8% premium on the £2.90 end of the initial range.



GG

EdInvestor

However, we should remember that initially the share price at flotation was expected to be between £2.40 and £2.90 making £3.28 just a 13% premium on the higher end of the range. Today's closing high would be only an 8% premium on the £2.90 end of the initial range.

Quite so GG.

This is round about where we really out to have been around 6 months ago.

Still, patience does pay off.