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SL. Standard Life

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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Standard Life LSE:SL. London Ordinary Share GB00BVFD7Q58 ORD 12 2/9P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 410.80 413.60 413.70 - 0.00 00:00:00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
0 0 N/A 0

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DateSubjectAuthorDiscuss
05/3/2017
12:34
I also ditched ADN some time ago.
Can see the merit of a merger/takeover - especially on regulation and cost savings - but how about 75:25.
Suet

suetballs
05/3/2017
11:50
.I see that the proposed merger with Aberdeen is touted at 66.6% SL and 33.3% Aberdeen.
Yet the market caps suggest that 74% SL and 26% ADN is the present comparison.
As I feel that SL is doing well and ADN not well I don't see why we should agree what is a generous premium to acquire ADN.I also suspect that the ADN dividend is not sustainable.
Maybe the SNP would like it but most of SL shareholders will not be Scottish based.
I hold SL but gave up on ADN last year.
GAN

ganthorpe
05/3/2017
10:14
Personally, I've always hoped for SL. to be taken over rather than be merged with the likes of ADN.Chinese - should be but.......SL.'s ex final dividend date is only 5 weeks away so it'll be interesting to see which way the price goes and thus the effect on the price of scrip. Watch for Scotgov to bang their drums on Monday as is their wont. Why? Because that's what they do - NOISY AND USELESS.
f1araway
05/3/2017
07:49
Should Be Good !
chinese investor
04/3/2017
20:36
Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management confirm merger talkshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-39168666
nithbank
04/3/2017
19:53
Will certainly have to be an RNS from both - be interesting to see how the 2 share prices go - I think they'll both be up decently with Aberdeen probably the bigger rise - been held back by dividend fears recently.
terry topper
04/3/2017
17:58
More on this. Lots of savings (ie lots of job cuts) though the leak may scupper the deal. I guess we will see an RNS either way monday morning.

I hold quite a lot of these, and they also manage about 25% of the funds (with mixed results). So its interesting on a few levels.

£200m saving is a lot when profit is £750m a year...of course that would be over the combined entity, roughly 130m would be attributable to SL

EDIT : Merger talks confirmed - be interesting to see what happens monday...

dr biotech
04/3/2017
15:08
Standard Life, Aberdeen Said to Hold Merger Talks,





Standard Life, Aberdeen Said to Hold Merger Talks, Sky Reports


by John Glover

March 4, 2017, 2:35 PM GMT

Merged company would manage more than 600 billion pounds
Standard Life’s market value is almost twice Aberdeen’s
Standard Life Plc and Aberdeen Asset Management Plc, two of the U.K.’s largest fund managers, have been holding talks about an 11 billion-pound ($13.5 billion) merger that would create one of the world’s biggest asset managers, Sky News reported on its website, without saying how it obtained the information.




The merged company would manage more than 600 billion pounds and employ more than 9,000 people, with a possible annual cost savings of 200 million pounds, Sky said. The combined company may be run jointly by Martin Gilbert and Keith Skeoch, the chief executives of Aberdeen and Standard Life, respectively, while Gerry Grimstone, Standard Life’s chairman, would probably chair the new group, Sky reported.

Standard Life has a market value of 7.5 billion pounds, almost double the 3.77 billion-pound value of Aberdeen. Standard Life shares have risen 1.75 percent so far this year, closing at 378.5 pence on Friday. Aberdeen’s stock is up 11.3 percent, closing at 286.4 pence.

Merger talk has swirled around Aberdeen in recent weeks amid outflows from its funds as a strengthening U.S. dollar encourages investors to switch money out of emerging markets, where Aberdeen is strongest. The company said on Feb. 2 that assets under management fell to 302.7 million pounds in the final quarter of the year, a decline of 10.5 billion pounds in the period.

Investor sentiment stalled following Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, with investors putting asset allocation decisions on hold, CEO Martin Gilbert said. Aberdeen also has been looking to the U.S. for possible transactions, including the purchase of Pioneer Investments’ U.S. business, Sky reported.

A Standard Life spokesman declined to comment. Aberdeen’s spokesman said he wasn’t immediately able to comment.

cheshire man
03/3/2017
13:44
Blue Skies Until 400p !

Chinese Investor (SL.) 15 Feb '17 - 08:58
380p Soon !

chinese investor
03/3/2017
13:42
Is this rise going to hold or is going to fall back like it did other day
granville23
03/3/2017
10:35
GO GO TRUMPIE !
chinese investor
01/3/2017
17:38
The Donald effect is not a safe position
joshuam
01/3/2017
10:48
Recovery Continues !
chinese investor
26/2/2017
13:25
Pete, there has been a net outflow on GARS, have not listened to the
conference call and Q&A yet, so just have the total FUM figure which is
in the report.

GARS makes a very easy angle for journalists to highlight,
so find many articles miss the wider business potential.

As mentioned hoping for lower levels to add.

Fully accept it would be more positive without a net outflow.

essentialinvestor
26/2/2017
12:44
Is it increasing or decreasing?
This is what the brokers bang on about.

petewy
26/2/2017
10:29
GARS is approx £47 Billion of £357 Billion FUM.
essentialinvestor
25/2/2017
20:00
The funds return is a big worry !!

While overall assets under management rose 16pc to £357.1bn in the year to the end of December, Standard Life’s Global Asset Return Strategies (GARS) fund suffered a £4.3bn “outflow”; - people withdrawing their money.




Chief executive Keith Skeoch
Standard Life chief executive Keith Skeoch Credit: Graham Flack



The fund has returned only 0.4pc over the past year, a fraction of the sector’s average, after positions it took went awry.

gretel1921
24/2/2017
16:45
A Monday dip would be most welcome to add.
essentialinvestor
24/2/2017
16:43
The numbers look broadly ok to me although the eps numbers for 2016 v 2015 are not strictly comparable. The dividend increase is probably the best guide to future performance. Responsible Boards don't usually increase them unless they are reasonably satisfied on future earnings growth.
ygor706
24/2/2017
16:42
Yeah, they overlook the 50bn increase in assets under management and big rise in eps
The Gars fund will probably be split up as it's so large. However, the fund fortunes are likely to change as these things broadly even out over time.
The 8% rise in divi is excellent and shows confidence.

big7ime
24/2/2017
15:09
The market reacted to the GARS net outflow and it's recent poor relative
performance, the City scribblers have an obsession with GARS.

It's just one piece of a growing business.

essentialinvestor
24/2/2017
14:57
Looks solid to me in terms of results.

As most of us are aware fat share price moves in either direction are pretty routine with SL.

essentialinvestor
24/2/2017
14:43
Well it's dipping!
f1araway
24/2/2017
14:38
Good results and increase in divi..... will be holding all mine and will look to add on any dips,
spcecks
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