Old Mutual

Compass ended the day as the Footsie's top performer, rising 6.1 per cent to 428½p, after its annual profits beat expectations. Old Mutual rose 1.8 per cent to 121¼p after Goldman Sachs started coverage with a "buy" rating based on...

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The European insurance sector added 1% in Wednesday trade, after a number of positive news reports hit the newswires. The insurer Old Mutual gained 2%, after being upgraded by Goldman Sachs to "buy". A different report showed that the giant...

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...during stable market conditions. A two-year deferment was backed by Legal & General, Prudential and Standard Life but not Aviva and Old Mutual, who have embraced the measure MCEV requires insurers across Europe to use a standardised...

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...with another 500,000 shares. The biggest Footsie risers were Cable & Wireless up 2.5p at 138.1p, Johnson Matthey ahead 27p at 1576p, Old Mutual up 1.7p at 118p and Shire up 16p at 1135p. The biggest Footsie fallers were Thomas Cook Group...

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...solvency rules for annuity providers that in their current form might necessitate capital raisings at UK insurers. In the wider sector, Old Mutual was 3.2p stronger at 112.2p, while Standard Life, which was upgraded to "equal weight" from...

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...own Asian businesses. Aviva <AV.L>, which ING rates as "buy", added 3.1 percent, while Legal and General <LGEN.L>, Standard Life <SL.L> and Old Mutual <OML.L> rose 2.2 to 4.1 percent. Among individual stocks, Cadbury <CBRY.L> was up 1.2...

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...price to 523 pence from 434 pence, topped the gainers up 4.7 percent. Legal and General <LGEN.L>, Standard Life <SL.L>, Aviva <AV.L> and Old Mutual <OML.L> rose 1.7 to 2.2 percent. Prudential <PRU.L> was the strongest insurer, up 4.4...

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...Assets Under Management for Q3 2009 BOSTON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Old Mutual Asset Management, the U.S. asset management group of Old Mutual plc (LSE: OML), announced assets under management (AUM) by the group's investment affiliates...

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...earnings a touch below expectations, and as investors digested trading updates from RSA Insurance <RSA.L> and Old Mutual <OML.L>. Old Mutual fell 2.3 percent. The Anglo-South African insurer reported a 4 percent dip in its third-quarter...

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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.K. insurer Old Mutual /quotes/comstock/23s!a:oml (UK:OML 111.00, 0.00, 0.00%) said Thursday that its life assurance sales in the third quarter dropped 4% to 326 million pounds ($540 million), while unit trust and...

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