L&G 2001 Results - Part 2
Legal & General Group PLC
28 February 2002
Part 2
Legal & General Group Plc P1
Consolidated Profit and Loss Account - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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Notes 2001 2000
£m £m
Profit on continuing operations
Life and pensions 1 633 540
Institutional fund management 76 82
General insurance 5 37 20
Other operational income 6 5 42
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751 684
Profit on discontinued operations
Other operational income
- Fairmount Group 0 2
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Operating profit 751 686
Variation from longer term
investment return 8 (688) (314)
Change in equalisation provision (6) (6)
Effect of economic assumption
changes 9 (3) 26
Profit on sale of Fairmount Group 10 8 -
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Profit on ordinary activities
before tax 62 392
Tax on profit on ordinary
activities 11 (105) (149)
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(Loss)/profit for the financial period (43) 243
Dividends (261) (243)
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Retained (loss)/profit (304) 0
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Earnings per share p p
Based on operating profit on continuing
operations after tax 10.65 9.70
Based on (loss)/profit for the
financial period (0.84) 4.74
Diluted earnings per share
Based on operating profit on continuing
operations after tax 10.15 9.68
Based on (loss)/profit for the
financial period (0.84) 4.73
Dividend per share 5.09 4.71
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These supplementary financial statements were approved by the Board on
27 February 2002 and have been prepared for long term business using
the Achieved Profits (AP) basis. The Modified Statutory Solvency (MSS)
results are included in Part 3.
The results constitute non-statutory accounts within the meaning of
Section 240 of the Companies Act 1985 and are extracted from the
Company's financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2001.
Legal & General Group Plc P2
Consolidated Balance Sheet - Achieved Profits basis
As at 31 December 2001
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Notes 2001 2000
Assets £m £m
Investments 12 34,464 35,077
Assets held to cover linked
liabilities 70,982 70,678
Long term in-force business asset 2,262 2,135
Other assets 2,804 2,378
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110,512 110,268
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Liabilities
Shareholders' funds 14 4,994 5,274
Fund for future appropriations 2,250 4,331
Technical provisions ___________ -----------
- Technical provisions : : : :
for linked liabilities : 70,848 : : 70,566 :
- Long term business provisions : 28,536 : : 26,692 :
- General insurance provisions : 336 : : 350 :
:_________: :_________:
99,720 97,608
Borrowings 15 1,642 571
Bank customer deposits 1,043 1,307
Other creditors 863 1,177
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110,512 110,268
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Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses
£m £m
(Loss)/profit for the financial period (43) 243
Exchange (losses)/gains (1) 13
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Total recognised gains and losses (44) 256
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Legal & General Group Plc P3
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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1. Operating profit from long term business
Managed
Life and pension
UK Intern- pensions funds*
ational Total UK Total
2001 £m £m £m £m £m
Contribution from:
- New business 183 34 217 27 244
- In-force business
- expected return 242 45 287 14 301
- experience variances 43 (5) 38 20 58
- operating assumption
changes (33) 11 (22) 11 (11)
- Development costs (26) 0 (26) (2) (28)
- Shareholder net worth 123 16 139 - 139
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Operating profit 532 101 633 70 703
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2000
Contribution from:
- New business 118 43 161 35 196
- In-force business
- expected return 256 41 297 14 311
- experience variances (71) (7) (78) 23 (55)
- operating assumption
changes 38 (9) 29 3 32
- Development costs (14) 0 (14) 0 (14)
- Shareholder net worth 127 18 145 - 145
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Operating profit 454 86 540 75 615
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* Included in the Institutional fund management result of £76m
(2000: £82m).
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Legal & General Group Plc P4
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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2. Life and pensions premiums and operating profit
2001 2000
Oper- Oper-
Gross ating Gross ating
premiums profit premiums profit
£m £m £m £m
UK 4,250 532 3,334 454
USA 272 67 256 45
Netherlands 131 18 98 17
France 146 16 140 24
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4,799 633 3,828 540
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International life and pensions gross premiums and operating profit for
2000 expressed at 31 December 2001 exchange rates are:
Gross Operating
premiums profit
£m £m
USA 261 46
Netherlands 96 17
France 137 23
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3. Principal sterling exchange rates used
2001 2000
United States dollar 1.46 1.49
Euro 1.63 1.59
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4. Half yearly analysis of operating profit from continuing operations
2001 2000
Second First Second First
half half half half
£m £m £m £m
Life and pensions 314 319 266 274
Institutional fund management 45 31 42 40
General insurance 21 16 11 9
Other operational income 2 3 20 22
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382 369 339 345
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5. General insurance premiums and operating profit
2001 2000
Oper-
Net Oper- Net ating
premiums ating premiums profit/
written profit written (loss)
£m £m £m £m
Household 204 15 181 5
Mortgage indemnity 1 14 2 21
Other business (including overseas) 64 8 66 (6)
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Total 269 37 249 20
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Legal & General Group Plc P5
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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6. Other operational income
2001 2000
£m £m
Shareholders' other income
- Investment return on shareholders' funds 52 54
- Interest expense (24) (9)
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28 45
Other operations* (13) 2
Unallocated corporate and
development expenses (10) (5)
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5 42
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* Other operations includes a loss of £16m (2000: £3m profit) in
respect of retail investment business previously reported within
Institutional fund management.
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7. General insurance and shareholder investment return
2001 2000
£m £m
Investment income 62 61
Interest expense and charges (25) (10)
Realised investment (losses)/gains (12) 19
Unrealised investment depreciation (42) (19)
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(17) 51
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reported within:
General insurance 18 19
Other operational income 28 45
Variation from longer term investment return
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- General insurance : (25): : (5):
- Other operational income : (38): : (8):
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(63) (13)
The investment return shown represents the return on the general
insurance and corporate funds.
Shareholders' other income, reported within Other operational income,
has been allocated based on a longer term rate of investment return
with the variation from the actual return being reported as Variation
from longer term investment return. The prior year has been restated.
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Legal & General Group Plc P6
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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8. Investment return variances
2001 2000
£m £m
Life and pensions
- UK (579) (274)
- International (15) (9)
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Total life and pensions (594) (283)
UK managed pension funds (31) (18)
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Total long term business (625) (301)
General insurance (25) (5)
Other operational income (38) (8)
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(688) (314)
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For long term business, the variation from longer term investment
return represents the effect of the investment performance in respect
of shareholder net worth and in-force business, compared with embedded
value assumptions at the beginning of the period.
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9. Effect of economic assumption changes
2001 2000
£m £m
Life and pensions
- UK 2 10
- International (5) 14
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Total life and pensions (3) 24
UK managed pension funds 0 2
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Total long term business (3) 26
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Legal & General Group Plc P7
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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10.Sale of Fairmount Group
The sale of Fairmount Group plc, a wholly owned subsidiary, to Brown
Shipley & Co Ltd was completed on 16 August 2001. This transaction
resulted in an exceptional profit before tax of £8m (£8m after tax).
The results to the date of sale have been reported as discontinued
business. This transaction, after an interim dividend of £2m,
generated net proceeds of £35m against which goodwill of £20m,
previously written off against reserves, has been charged.
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11.Analysis of tax
2001 2000
Profit Tax Profit Tax
before (charge) before (charge)
tax /credit tax /credit
£m £m £m £m
Profit from continuing operations
UK life and pensions 532 (137) 454 (112)
International life and pensions ------- ------- ------- -------
- USA : 67 : : (24): : 45 : : (16):
- Netherlands : 18 : : (6): : 17 : : (6):
- France : 16 : : (5): : 24 : : (9):
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101 (35) 86 (31)
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633 (172) 540 (143)
Institutional fund management 76 (22) 82 (26)
General insurance 37 (8) 20 (6)
Other operational income 5 (1) 42 (13)
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751 (203) 684 (188)
Profit from discontinued operations
Other operational income
- Fairmount Group 0 0 2 0
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Operating profit 751 (203) 686 (188)
Variation from longer term
investment return (688) 90 (314) 41
Change in equalisation provision (6) 2 (6) 2
Effect of economic assumption changes (3) 6 26 (4)
Profit on sale of Fairmount Group 8 0 - -
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Profit on ordinary activities and tax 62 (105) 392 (149)
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Legal & General Group Plc P8
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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12.Funds under management
2001 2000
£m £m
Land and buildings 3,526 3,582
Shares, variable yield securities
and unit trusts 12,964 15,069
Debt and other fixed income securities 14,270 13,451
Loans secured by mortgages 1,394 1,289
Other loans and investments 382 384
Deposits with credit institutions 1,928 1,302
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Total investments 34,464 35,077
Assets held to cover linked liabilities 70,982 70,678
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Funds included in the
consolidated balance sheet 105,446 105,755
Segregated funds 7,561 4,565
Unit trusts, ISAs and PEPs 4,535 3,867
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Total funds under management 117,542 114,187
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representing:
Managed in the UK
- Active 33,832 34,751
- Index tracking 78,255 74,913
- For overseas subsidiaries 1,161 1,089
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113,248 110,753
Managed overseas 2,661 1,699
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115,909 112,452
Mortgages and other 1,633 1,735
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117,542 114,187
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including Institutional funds under management:
UK Managed pension funds
- Pooled 61,675 61,832
- Segregated 5,130 2,213
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66,805 64,045
Other funds 2,575 2,434
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69,380 66,479
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The reported asset mix shown above does not reflect the use of
derivatives. The effect of outstanding futures contracts is to change
the mix as if the value as reported for shares, variable yield
securities and unit trusts increased by £136m (2000: decrease £15m);
deposits would be changed by corresponding amounts. The effect of
other derivatives was not considered significant enough to be
reported separately.
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Legal & General Group Plc P9
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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13.Embedded value
Life Managed
and pension
Intern- pensions funds
UK ational Total UK Total
£m £m £m £m £m
2001
At 1 January 3,868 578 4,446 134 4,580
Exchange rate movements - 6 6 - 6
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3,868 584 4,452 134 4,586
(Loss)/profit after tax (109) 52 (57) 26 (31)
Capital movements * 920 (1) 919 116 1,035
Distributions (247) (2) (249) (24) (273)
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At 31 December 4,432 633 5,065 252 5,317
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comprising:
Value of in-force business 2,439 394 2,833 136 2,969
Shareholder net worth ** 1,993 239 2,232 116 2,348
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4,432 633 5,065 252 5,317
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2000
At 1 January 3,824 461 4,285 130 4,415
Exchange rate movements - 28 28 - 28
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3,824 489 4,313 130 4,443
Profit after tax 115 59 174 41 215
Capital movements 147 34 181 - 181
Distributions (218) (4) (222) (37) (259)
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At 31 December 3,868 578 4,446 134 4,580
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comprising:
Value of in-force business 2,334 356 2,690 134 2,824
Shareholder net worth ** 1,534 222 1,756 - 1,756
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3,868 578 4,446 134 4,580
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* Following the transfer of the investment management businesses the
UK long term fund (LTF) subsidiaries which were the holding companies
for these businesses, are no longer considered as operational. Their
net assets of £580m are now attributed to UK life and pensions. This
impact, together with the further increase in subordinated debt of
£355m less net capital invested in operational subsidiaries of £15m,
is reported as a capital movement. Also following this transfer, the
shareholder net worth attributable to UK managed pension funds is the
shareholders' funds on the MSS basis of £116m and this has been
reported as a capital movement which took place at the year end.
** For the UK life and pensions business, shareholder net worth
comprises the shareholder retained capital (SRC) on the MSS basis,
adjusted for deferred acquisition costs, and the sub-fund, both net of
an appropriate allowance for tax. It also includes intra-group
subordinated debt capital of £502m (2000: £147m) but excludes the net
assets of £68m (2000: £201m net of value of in-force business) of LTF
operational subsidiaries.
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Legal & General Group Plc P10
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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14.Shareholders' funds
Segmental analysis
2001 2000
£m £m
Embedded value of life and pensions
businesses:
- UK* 4,432 3,868
- USA 492 443
- Netherlands 74 67
- France 67 68
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5,065 4,446
Institutional fund management** 283 251
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5,348 4,697
General insurance 91 76
Banking 92 92
Corporate funds*** (537) 409
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4,994 5,274
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Movement
At 1 January 5,274 5,250
(Loss)/profit for the financial period (43) 243
Exchange movements (1) 13
Dividends (261) (243)
Increase in share capital/share premium 5 11
Goodwill written back on sale of
Fairmount Group plc 20 -
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At 31 December 4,994 5,274
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* Including £502m (2000: £147m) of intra-group subordinated debt
capital attributed to the SRC previously reported within Corporate
funds.
** Including £252m (2000: £240m) net assets of UK managed pension funds
business.
*** Corporate funds includes the convertible debt of £515m and the
senior debt of £502m (2000: £147m) which has been lent to the UK LTF.
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Legal & General Group Plc P11
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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15.Borrowings
2001 2000
£m £m
Convertible bond 515 -
Mortgage-related 529 279
Attributed to the SRC 502 147
Other 96 145
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Total borrowings 1,642 571
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The convertible bond is due in 2006 with a coupon of 2.75% p.a. and is
convertible into ordinary shares of the Company at 204p per share. If
converted, this bond would give rise to the issue of 257.4m new
ordinary shares which represents approximately 5% of the current
issued share capital.
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Legal & General Group Plc P12
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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16.Embedded value assumptions
UK life and pensions
i) For the LTF all assets which, following the reclassification of
the SRC in 1996, have been treated as 'backing assets' and thus
encumbered, will continue to be treated as such. Capital reported as
transferred into the LTF since 1996, in the form of subordinated debt
and the excess of the consideration over the net asset value of
subsidiaries transferred from the LTF in December 2001, is treated
as residual.
ii) The assumed future pre-tax returns on fixed interest and RPI linked
securities are set by reference to redemption yields available in the
market at the end of the reporting period. The corresponding return on
equities and property is set by reference to the fixed interest gilt
assumption.
As at 31.12.2001 As at 31.12.2000
Investment return % p.a. % p.a.
- Gilts
- Fixed interest 5.0 4.7
- RPI linked 5.0 4.7
- Non-gilts
- Fixed interest 5.4 - 6.3 5.3 - 6.5
- RPI linked 5.1 - 5.8 5.0 - 6.0
- Equities and property 7.6 7.3
Risk discount rate (after tax) 7.5 7.2
Inflation
- Expenses/earnings 3.5 3.6
- Indexation 2.5 2.6
The assumed returns on non-gilt securities are net of an allowance for
default risk of 0.15% p.a., other than for certain government-supported
securities where no such allowance is made. In 2000 an overall
allowance of 0.05% p.a. was used.
iii) Assets are valued at market value. For the projection of fixed
interest and RPI linked investment returns, asset values are adjusted
to reflect the assumed interest and inflation rates.
iv) The value of the sub-fund is the discounted value of projected
investment returns for a period of 20 years (2000: 20 years).
v) Development costs relate to new strategic administration systems,
stakeholder pensions, and in 2001, start up costs relating to the
Barclays strategic alliance.
vi) Future bonus rates have been set at levels which would fully
utilise the assets supporting with-profits business. The proportion of
profits derived from with-profits business allocated to shareholders
has been assumed to be 10% throughout.
vii) The value of the in-force business reflects the cost of providing
for benefit enhancement to certain products and for compensation in
relation to pension transfers and opt-outs, including administration
expenses.
Legal & General Group Plc P13
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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16.Embedded value assumptions (continued)
viii) Other actuarial assumptions have been set at levels commensurate
with recent operating experience, including those for mortality,
persistency and maintenance expenses (excluding the development costs
referred to above). These are reviewed annually. An allowance is made
for secular trends in annuitant mortality based on externally published
data with the end 2001 assumptions taking into account the improvement
factors contained in CMI Report No.17.
ix) Business in force comprises previously written single premium,
regular premium and recurrent single premium contracts. For this
purpose, DSS rebates have not been treated as recurrent and their value
is included in the value of new business as the premiums are received.
x) Projected tax has been determined assuming current tax legislation
and rates, except where future changes have been announced.
xi) AP results are computed on an after tax basis and are grossed up
to the pre-tax level for presentation in the profit and loss account.
The tax rate used for grossing-up is the corporation tax rate of 30%
(2000: 30%), except for the profit attributable to shareholder net
worth, where the rate used is derived from the tax attributed to the
contribution from the shareholder net worth in the MSS accounts.
UK managed pension funds
The UK life and pensions economic assumptions are used. All contracts
are assumed to lapse after ten years. Fees are projected on a basis
which reflects current charges and, if less, anticipated charges. New
business consists of monies received from new clients and incremental
receipts from existing clients, and excludes the roll-up of the
investment returns. Development costs relate to product and
geographical coverage initiatives.
Legal & General Group Plc P14
Notes to Financial Statements - Achieved Profits basis
Year ended 31 December 2001
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16.Embedded value assumptions (continued)
International
Key assumptions are:
As at 31.12.2001 As at 31.12.2000
% p.a. % p.a.
USA
Reinvestment rate 6.5 7.0
Risk discount rate (net of tax) 7.6 7.7
The assumed future pre-tax return is projected from the actual
investment portfolio less specific margins for the risks associated
with the investments.
As at 31.12.2001 As at 31.12.2000
% p.a. % p.a.
Europe
Government bond return 5.0 5.2
Risk discount rate (net of tax) 8.5 8.5
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17.Alternative assumptions
The discount rate appropriate to any investor will depend on the
investor's own requirements, tax and perception of the risks associated
with the anticipated cash flows to shareholders. The table below shows
the effect of alternative discount rates and equity and property yields
on the UK life and pensions embedded value and new business contribution
for the period.
1% higher
1% lower1% higher equities
risk risk and
discount discount property
As published rate rate yields
£m £m £m £m
Effect on embedded value
at 31 December 2001 4,432 +280 -240 +270
Effect on new business
contribution for the period 183 +33 -28 +19
It should be noted that in calculating the alternative values all other
assumptions are left unchanged.
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Legal & General Group Plc P15
New business
Year ended 31 December 2001
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Life and pensions
2001 2000
Annual Single Annual Single
£m £m £m £m
Life 170 1,238 160 751
Pensions 137 1,536 86 1,205
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UK 307 2,774 246 1,956
USA 52 1 62 1
Netherlands 8 91 7 54
France 7 109 5 107
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Insurance total 374 2,975 320 2,118
Retail investment business
ISAs 38 467 27 403
Unit trusts
- UK 1 405 - 269
- France - 35 - 41
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Total new business 413 3,882 347 2,831
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Annual Premium Equivalent (APE) is calculated for total new business,
including unit trusts and ISAs but excluding institutional fund
management, and comprises the new annual premiums together with 10% of
single premiums. APE from insurance business has increased to £671m
(2000: £532m). APE from total new business in the same period has
increased to £801m (2000: £630m).
International new insurance premiums for 2000 expressed at 31 December
2001 exchange rates are:
Annual Single
£m £m
USA 63 1
Netherlands 7 53
France 5 104
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Legal & General Group Plc P16
New UK business
Year ended 31 December 2001
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New UK annual premiums
2001 2000
Full Second First Full Second First
year half half year half half
£m £m £m £m £m £m
Insurance business
Life:
- Mortgage-related 101 50 51 112 55 57
- Protection 37 21 16 17 11 6
- Group risk 32 16 16 31 17 14
Pensions:
- Individual pensions 123 73 50 77 35 42
- Group pensions 14 10 4 9 6 3
Retail investment
business
- ISAs 38 22 16 27 16 11
- Unit trusts 1 1 - - - -
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Total New
UK Annual Business 346 193 153 273 140 133
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New UK single premiums
Insurance business
Bonds:
- With-profits 1,134 675 459 648 381 267
- Other 104 65 39 103 43 60
Pensions:
- Individual pensions 266 108 158 342 185 157
- Annuities
- individual 335 175 160 426 237 189
- Annuities
- bulk purchase 741 344 397 258 167 91
- Other group business 74 37 37 68 35 33
- DSS rebates 120 85 35 111 85 26
Retail investment
business
- ISAs 467 157 310 403 107 296
- Unit trusts 405 285 120 269 125 144
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Total New
UK Single Business 3,646 1,931 1,715 2,628 1,365 1,263
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New UK APE
Total individual
life and pensions APE 457 255 202 369 194 175
Total retail
investments APE 126 67 59 94 39 55
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Total individual APE 583 322 261 463 233 230
Total group APE 127 63 64 73 43 30
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Total UK APE 710 385 325 536 276 260
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Institutional
fund management
UK Managed Pension
Funds*
- Pooled funds 10,608 5,011 5,597 11,040 6,067 4,973
- Segregated funds 2,571 2,169 402 327 38 289
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13,179 7,180 5,999 11,367 6,105 5,262
Other funds 40 27 13 1,310 703 607
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13,219 7,207 6,012 12,677 6,808 5,869
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* New monies from the pension fund clients of Legal & General
Assurance (Pensions Management) Ltd.
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