Share Interests

Old Mutual PLC
23 January 2007

                                 Old Mutual plc

Ref: 03/07

23 January 2007
                  
                   Interests in shares and total voting rights

Old Mutual plc (the 'Company') announces that on 19 January 2007 it received a
notice dated 18 January 2007 informing the Company that Barclays PLC, through
the legal entities listed below, had at 17 January 2007 a notifiable interest in
218,149,330 ordinary shares, representing 3.97% of the issued ordinary share
capital of the Company and 4.19% of the total voting rights in the Company's
ordinary share capital.

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

Barclays Global Investors Ltd                                       80,731,412
                             
Barclays Global Investors, N.A.                                     78,976,578
                               
Barclays Global Fund Advisors                                       19,925,380
                               
Barclays Life Assurance Co Ltd                                      12,759,724
                              
Barclays Capital Securities Ltd                                      8,611,713
                              
Barclays Global Investors Japan Trust & Banking                      6,127,191
                                
Barclays Global Investors Japan Ltd                                  4,068,543
                               
Barclays Private Bank Ltd                                            2,938,035
                                 
Gerrard Limited                                                      2,266,478
                               
Barclays Private Bank and Trust Ltd                                    499,616
                              
Barclays Global Investors Canada Ltd                                   406,779
                              
Barclays Capital Inc.                                                  402,000
                                 
Absa Portfolio Managers                                                251,443
                             
Abvest Associates (Pty) Ltd                                            169,175
                              
Barclays Bank Trust Company Ltd                                         15,263

The Company further announces that on 22 January 2007 it received a notice dated
19 January 2007 informing the Company that Franklin Resources, Inc. and its
affiliates had at that date a notifiable interest in 330,214,835 ordinary
shares, representing 6.00% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company
and 6.34% of the total voting rights in the Company's ordinary share capital.

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

JP Morgan Chase - London                                           259,774,600
                          
State Street Bank - London                                          30,807,434
                            
Mellon Bank NA - London                                              9,377,570
                              
Royal Trust Corp of Canada - London                                  8,607,420
                             
Citibank - London                                                    6,150,750
                             
Bank of New York - London                                            4,918,270
                             
Merrill Lynch Intl. Ltd. - London                                    4,841,250
                              
Northern Trust Company - London                                      3,736,368
                                 
HSBC Bank plc - London                                               1,683,576
                               
Northern Trust Company - Luxembourg                                    262,467
                                
Euroclear - Bruxelles                                                   55,130

The Company's issued ordinary share capital currently comprises 5,500,895,508
ordinary shares of 10p each.  African life subsidiaries of the Company hold a
total of 291,353,574 ordinary shares in the Company in their policyholders'
funds. These shares cannot be voted while they are held by subsidiaries of Old
Mutual plc because of applicable provisions of UK company law. Therefore the
total number of voting rights in the Company's ordinary share capital is
5,209,541,934.

Old Mutual

For further information on Old Mutual plc, please visit the corporate website at
www.oldmutual.com

Enquiries

Investor Relations
Malcolm Bell                   UK       [phone]

Media
Katie Bell                     UK       [phone]
Nad Pillay                     SA       [phone]


Forward-looking statements

This announcement or presentation may contain certain forward-looking statements
with respect to certain of Old Mutual plc's plans and its current goals and
expectations relating to its future financial condition, performance and
results. By their nature, all forward-looking statements involve risk and
uncertainty because they relate to future events and circumstances that are
beyond Old Mutual plc's control, including, among other things, UK domestic and
global economic and business conditions, market-related risks such as
fluctuations in interest rates and exchange rates, policies and actions of
regulatory authorities, the impact of competition, inflation, deflation, the
timing and impact of other uncertainties or of future acquisitions or
combinations within relevant industries, as well as the impact of tax and other
legislation and other regulations in territories where Old Mutual plc or its
affiliates operate.

As a result, Old Mutual plc's actual future financial condition, performance and
results may differ materially from the plans, goals and expectations set forth
in Old Mutual plc's forward-looking statements. Old Mutual plc undertakes no
obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this
announcement or presentation or any other forward-looking statements that it may
make.




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