Additional Standard Life shares.

At 22:17:21 on 21/06/2006, Paul Giverin delighted uk.finance by announcing:

Or less if they're taken over before next July.

Plus the dividend which they reckon will be 5.4p in May (as 50% of the estimated annual dividend).

Everything I've heard so far seems to recommend it.

In message , Alex writes

Thanks for that Alex.

Paul

I'm in the same situation as you - just out of interest, have you had anything in the post concerning buying extra shares? I've only received correspondence by email.

Regards, Simon

In message , PigPOg writes

My pack turned up yesterday and I had a good scan through today. On top of your allocation you can apply for £1000-50000 at a 5% discount, which may well get oversubscribed, and then on the year anniversary you get another 5% of what you have held for the full year.

Assuming you get the full allocation of extra shares there is likely to be a fractional amount of a share left over, and apparently this is going to be paid to charidee. If you apply for say £50000 and only get three you will get the difference refunded (although I'm not sure if that includes the fractional share amount).

In message , PigPOg writes

Yes I got the pack about 5 days ago and its much as Timothy described in his post.

At 17:09:46 on 22/06/2006, snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net delighted uk.finance by announcing:

Yes. The fractional amount only goes to charity because of the cost of processing refunds for small amounts.

Forget my posting above, the pack arrived this morning. Thanks anyway, Simon