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Financial Highlights

  IFRS
  2007
$m		 2006
$m		 2005
$m
Income statement – continuing operations      
Profit before exceptional items 1,301 1,154 720
Exceptional items – – 195
Pre-tax profit 1,301 1,154 915
Taxation (191) (194) (132)
Profit for the year 1,110 960 783
       
Income statement – discontinued operations      
Profit before exceptional items 257 152 143
Exceptional items 6 (70) –
Pre-tax profit 263 82 143
Taxation (89) (28) (41)
Profit for the year 174 54 102
       
Earnings per share (diluted)      
Continuing operations 55.4c 48.3c 38.8c
Continuing and discontinued operations 63.9c 51.0c 34.5c
Underlying – total operations 50.8c 35.7c 30.3c
Underlying – continuing operations 42.0c 30.6c 24.5c
       
Balance sheet ($m)      
Net cash 1,832 1,301 1,011
Net assets 4,563 3,577 2,712
       
Other statistics      
Post-tax return on equity 30.9% 33.5% 29.8%
Ordinary dividend per share 20.0c 14.3c 11.0c
Funds under management $61.7bn $49.9bn $43.0bn
Average headcount – continuing operations 1,548 1,364 1,129
Average headcount – discontinued operations 3,174 2,067 1,759
       
Sterling exchange rates      
Average 0.5280 0.5600 0.5417
Year-end 0.5079 0.5759 0.5298
       

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