(PRU.L) Prudential PLC Buy/Sell

RNS Number : 7249C Laird PLC 18 November 2009

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing LAIRD PLC

shares to which voting rights are attached:

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
X

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments An event changing the breakdown of voting rights Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the PRUDENTIAL PLC GROUP OF COMPANIES

notification obligation:

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if SEE SCHEDULE BELOW

different from 3.):

5. Date of the transaction and date on 17 NOVEMBER 2009

which the threshold is crossed or reached:

6. Date on which issuer notified: 18 NOVEMBER 2009

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or 5%

reached:

8. Notified details: A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of Situation previous Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares to the triggering
transaction

if possible using the ISIN CODE
Number Number Number Number of voting % of voting
of of of shares rights rights
Shares Voting
Rights
Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect

BELOW 5% 13,346,350 13,346,350 5.01
BELOW 5%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting
instrument date Conversion rights that may be rights
Period acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/
converted.

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial Exercise Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting rights
instrument price date Conversion rights instrument
period refers to
Nominal Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
13,346,350 5.01%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: Prudential plc (parent Company) M&G Group Limited (wholly owned subsidiary of Prudential plc) M&G Limited (wholly owned subsidiary of M&G Group Limited)

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information: Calculations are based on a Total Voting
Rights figure of 266,302,206

14. Contact name: DIPESH VARSANI / MARK THOMAS
M&G INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED

15. Contact telephone number: 020 7548 3261 / 020 7548 3266

Notifiable Position Report for LAIRD PLC ORD GBP0.28125

as at 17 November 2009

Percentage holdings are calculated using an issued share capital of 266,302,206 ORD GBP0.28125 shares

Registered Holder Holding %

Prudential plc 13,346,350 5.01 Total Notifiable Interest

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 61,033

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 2,491,383

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 150,000

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 921,322

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 357,863

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 96,652
NORTRUST NOMS LTD 339,855

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 40,899

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 270,000

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 5,128,914

PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM 2,527,356

PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM 961,073

M&G Group Limited 13,346,350 5.01

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 61,033

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 2,491,383

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 150,000

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 921,322

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 357,863

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 96,652
NORTRUST NOMS LTD 339,855

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 40,899

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 270,000

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 5,128,914

PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM 2,527,356

PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM 961,073

M&G Limited 13,346,350 5.01

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 61,033

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 2,491,383

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 150,000

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 921,322

NORTRUST NOMINEE LTD 357,863

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 96,652
NORTRUST NOMS LTD 339,855

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 40,899

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 270,000

NORTRUST NOMS LTD 5,128,914

PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM 2,527,356

PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM 961,073

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By Jonathan Gould

FRANKFURT, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Insurers are showing increasing irritation at being lumped in with banks as regulators tighten the reins on the financial sector to avoid future crises.
Insurance companies, who argue they were not the cause of the financial crisis, rather the victims, face big increases in capital buffers they must maintain to protect customers in the event of another crisis, just as banks do.
Unjustifiably big increases, insurers say.
European insurance regulator CEIOPS is hammering out a set of new rules called Solvency II for determining how much capital insurers must hold to cover risks they face.

Insurance has a different way of transmitting systemic shocks than banks do, because insurers have a completely different business model, said Alberto Corinti, Deputy Director General of European insurance industry association CEA.
"What we want in Solvency II is the right level of capital," Corinti, a former head of CEIOPS's secretariat, said at the Euro Finance Week conference.
"What we don't accept now is that, just because the crisis has highlighted banks should increase their capital ... there should also be an increase of capital in Solvency II," he said.
CEIOPS counters that its last major test of draft capital rules, carried out with the industry in 2008, was conceived before the financial crisis struck and said the latest changes reflect new knowledge about what can go wrong -- for example, with insurers' use of derivatives.
"We need to take into account the lessons of the crisis," said Gabriel Bernardino, who took over as CEIOPS chairman at the end of last month.
Bernardino has stressed that regulators are still in discussion with the industry on capital rules, including those affecting annuity products which British insurers say might force them to bolster their reserves by 50 billion pounds ($84 billion).
"We will try to devise a solution that will be a practical one, that will be taken within the scope of Solvency II," Bernardino told Reuters.
"The implications are so huge that a technical subject starts to be a political issue," he said, adding Europe's politicians would ultimately decide how to resolve the issue, but probably not for several months.

Insurers also said they were not fairly represented on a European Systemic Risk Board being set up to identify and warn of financial sector risks.
The board, to be chaired by European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and including all EU central bank governors among its 33 members, will have only one insurance supervisor.
On Wednesday, Trichet stressed the role of insurers and pension funds in affecting financial stability.
But AXA's chief risk officer Jean-Christoph Menioux said the role reserved for insurers on the board was inconsistent.
"We don't want to be put in the same basket as banks because the nature of risks is completely different, which was evident in the latest crisis," he told Reuters at the Euro Finance Week conference, adding that while insurers were big investors, they faced little leverage or liquidity risk.
"Either we are systemic and we should be represented properly, or we are not and so shouldn't even be in the board," Menioux said.
Insurance supervisors are angling to redress the mismatch, possibly through an insurance sub-committee within the board.
"It would be to the benefit of everyone if we could find a better solution," CEIOPS Secretary General Carlos Montalvo said. "We have to be rightly represented."

(Editing by Dan Lalor)

($1 = 0.5946 pound) Keywords: INSURERS/CAPITAL (Reuters Messaging: jonathan.gould.reuters.com@reuters.net; +49 69 7565 1242)

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RNS Number : 5964C Laird PLC 16 November 2009

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing Laird PLC

shares to which voting rights are attached:

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): An acquisition or disposal of voting rights An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Update to Total Voting Rights figure triggered this notification X

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the Prudential plc group of companies

notification obligation:

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):

5. Date of the transaction and date on 13 November 2009

which the threshold is crossed or reached:

6. Date on which issuer notified: 16 November 2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or 5%

reached:

8. Notified details: A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of Situation previous Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares to the triggering
transaction

if possible using the ISIN CODE
Number Number Number Number of voting % of voting rights
of of of shares rights
Shares Voting
Rights
Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
GB00B1VNST91 12,286,350 12,286,350 Below 5% Below 5% Below 5%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting
instrument date Conversion rights that may be rights
Period acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/
converted.

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial Exercise Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting rights
instrument price date Conversion rights instrument
period refers to
Nominal Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
Below 5% Below 5%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder: N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: N/A
13. Additional information: We no longer have a notifiable interest

Calculations are based on a Total Voting
Rights figure of 266,302,206
14. Contact name: Dipesh Varsani / Mark Thomas
M&G Investment Management Limited
15. Contact telephone number: 020 7548 3261 / 020 7548 3266

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RNS Number : 5648C Investec PLC 16 November 2009

Investec Limited Investec plc
Incorporated in the Republic Incorporated in England and Wales
of South Africa Registration number 3633621
Registration number JSE share code: INP
1925/002833/06 ISIN: GB00B17BBQ50

JSE share code: INL ISIN: ZAE000081949

(jointly "Investec")

As part of the dual listed company structure, Investec plc and Investec Limited notify both the London Stock Exchange and the JSE Limited of matters which are required to be disclosed under the Disclosure, Transparency and Listing Rules of the United Kingdom Listing Authority (the "UKLA") and/or the JSE Listing Requirements.

Accordingly, we advise of the following:

TR-1i: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are

attached (ii):

Investec plc

2. Reason for the notification (please state Yes/No):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: Yes

An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached: N/A

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights: N/A

Other (please specify): N/A

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation (iii):

Prudential Plc group of companies

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.) (iv):

(i). PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM(UK) PAC AC

(ii). PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM(UK) PPL AC

(iii). STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA

5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached (v):

12 November 2009

6. Date on which issuer notified:

13 November 2009

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

3%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares if Situation previous to the Triggering transaction:

possible using the ISIN CODE
Number of shares Number of voting Rights
GB00B17BBQ50 Below 3% Below 3%

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Class/type of shares if Number of shares Number of voting rights % of voting rights

possible using the ISIN CODE
Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
GB00B17BBQ50 14,120,012 14,120,012 3.01%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument Expiration Date ( Exercise/Conversion Number of voting % of voting rights
Period/ Date rights that may be
acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/ converted

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Type of financial instrument Expiration Date ( Exercise/Conversion Number of voting % of voting rights
Period/ Date rights that may be
acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/ converted
Nominal Delta

Total (A+B +C) Number of voting rights % of voting rights

14,120,012 3.01%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Prudential plc (parent Company)

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder: N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will acquire to hold: N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will acquire to hold voting rights: N/A

13. Additional information:

14. Contact name:

Dipesh Varsani / Mark Thomas

M & G Investment Management Limited

15. Contact:

020 7548 3261 / 020 7548 3266

This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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