Five Year Summary

“Our strategy for some time has been to achieve sustainable earnings growth by diversifying our business base and building recurring revenue streams.

The core principles on which those strategic aims are built are:

1. Financial Strength - underpinned by disciplined approach to investment: focussed on an agency model: high balance sheet liquidity;
2. Partnership Culture - proper alignment and reward sharing between employees and shareholders: long term view focussed on relationships not transactions.

The Group has stayed true to these values throughout the downturn of 2008 and 2009, both in growing our existing businesses and developing new ones.  The Group aims to maintain a high cash generation and low fixed cost agency model to deliver high margin and low risk returns.  The heart of the Group's business is building long term client relationships and developing  a true partnership culture."

Alex Snow
Chief Executive, 2009 Report and Accounts

£'m’s	2010 interim	2009 interim	2009 final	2008 final	2007 final	2006 final	2005 final
	£m'’s	£m’s	£m’s	£m’s	£m’s	£m’s	£m’s
Total Income	56.1	52.6	129.4	63.9	85.5	82.9	72.0
Adjusted Operating Profit	7.0	9.1	21.1	1.9	22.1	21.3	25.4
Statutory Operating Profit	4.5	3.7
Statutory Profit/(Loss) before Tax from Continuing Operations	3.0	3.6	11.1	(12.7)	3.2	15.8	58.6
Statutory Diluted Earnings per share	1.24p	1.23p	3.87p	(5.18)p	1.19p	2.83p	24.36p
Dividends per share	1.00p	0.80p	2.50p	2.02p	1.92p	1.50p	1.20p
Balance Sheet Net Assets	131.2	147.1	137.2	147.2	155.3	154.0	156.7
Assets under mgmt and administration	5.100	4.200	5.200	3.400	3.000	2,500	900