Share Interests

Old Mutual PLC
02 August 2005

                                                                          
                                Share interests


Old Mutual plc (the 'Company') announces that it has today received a notice
dated 29 July 2005 informing the Company that Franklin Resources, Inc. and its
affiliates, including Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC and Templeton Worldwide,
Inc., had at that date a notifiable interest, for the purposes of Part VI of the
UK Companies Act 1985, in 3.24% of the Company's ordinary share capital,
represented by an aggregate holding of 124,902,980 shares.

Further details of the shareholdings making up this aggregate figure were as
follows:

   • Bank of New York, London branch                         111,821 shares
   • Euroclear Bruxelles Bic Mgt                              20,000 shares
   • JP Morgan Chase, London                             113,775,196 shares
   • Mellon Bank NA                                        4,136,111 shares
   • Northern Trust Company                                  549,740 shares
   • Royal Trust Corp of Canada, London                    4,077,500 shares
   • State Street Nominees Limited, London                 2,232,612 shares

                                                                   2 August 2005
                                                                                

ENQUIRIES:

Old Mutual plc UK
Miranda Bellord     [phone]

Old Mutual plc SA
Nad Pillay          [phone]


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