Assets under administration up 7% to £328.0bn (FY 2015: £307.4bn) helped by gross inflows into our growth channels of £20.6bn (H1 2015: £20.5bn) and net inflows of £4.1bn (H1 2015: £7.4bn)
Institutional and Wholesale channels benefiting from diversification:
Global Institutional business AUM up to £78.1bn helped by net inflows of £2.0bn representing an annualised 6% of opening AUM
Wholesale AUM up to £47.3bn with net outflows of £0.4bn in a challenging environment for mutual funds, representing an annualised outflow of 2% of opening AUM
Third party1 investment performance ahead of benchmark over 1 year: 29%; 3 years: 85%; 5 years: 84%
Workplace and Retail channels continuing to see steady growth with net inflows of £2.8bn (H1 2015: £2.9bn), representing an annualised 7% of opening AUA:
Assets on our leading adviser Wrap platform up 20% year-on-year to £28.0bn (FY 2015: £25.5bn; H1 2015: £23.3bn) with net inflows in H1 2016 up 3% to £2.1bn
Regular contributions into workplace pensions up 4% to £1.5bn
Fee based revenue up 4% to £794m representing 93% of total operating income, with revenue across growth channels up 8% to £577m
Underlying performance* up 14% and operating profit2 before tax up 18% to £341m with diluted operating EPS up 16% to 13.5p (H1 2015: 11.6p)
Profit for the period attributable to equity holders of £226m (H1 2015: £69m) and basic EPS of 11.5p (H1 2015: 3.2p)
Underlying cash generation up 10% to £254m and a strong and stable Solvency II surplus of £2.2bn3
Creating shareholder value in India:
Increased our stake in HDFC Life from 26% to 35% for £179m
HDFC Life has agreed terms that, subject to approvals, will see the combination of the life insurance businesses of HDFC Life and Max Life, creating the leading private sector life insurer in India
The enlarged HDFC Life in which Standard Life would hold a 24.1% stake will, as a result of the combination and subject to approvals, have listings on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India
Interim dividend up 7.5% to 6.47p
