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Shareholder services

Managing your shareholding

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Shareholders who have any queries in respect of their shareholding should contact the Company’s Registrar, Lloyds TSB Registrars. In addition to assisting with general queries, the Registrar can help with the following:

Amalgamating different share accounts

If shareholders received more than one copy of the Company’s communications, it could be because there is more than one record for the shareholder on the share register. To avoid duplicate mailings the Registrar can arrange for accounts to be amalgamated.

Dividend payments direct to your bank account

As an alternative to having dividends paid by cheque, shareholders can, if they wish, have them credited directly into their bank or building society account on the dividend payment date. Having the dividend paid directly into their bank account offers shareholders the benefits of avoiding the risk of cheques being lost in the post, and is more convenient as payment is credited automatically on the payment date. The tax voucher is sent to the shareholder’s registered address as usual. Shareholders wishing to set up a dividend mandate can do so via the Company’s website www.aviva.com/dividendmandate. For overseas shareholders, a TAPS (Transcontinental Automated Payment Service) is available, which allows shareholders in many countries to have dividends credited direct to their bank accounts in local currencies.

Consolidated Tax Vouchers

Private shareholders who currently receive dividends paid directly into their bank or building society account receive one consolidated tax voucher each year instead of a voucher with each dividend payment, unless they request otherwise.

Scrip Dividend

The Aviva Scrip Dividend Scheme (the “Scheme”) provides shareholders with the opportunity to receive their dividends in the form of new ordinary shares in the Company instead of cash. Shareholders who have not joined the Scheme but wish to do so should contact Lloyds TSB Registrars and request a mandate form. The completed mandate form will need to be received by Lloyds TSB Registrars no later than 19 October 2007 in order to be effective for the 2007 interim dividend. Further details are included on the Company’s website www.aviva.com/scripdividend.

A range of shareholder frequently asked questions including practical help on transferring shares and updating details is available online at www.aviva.com/shareholders.

Corporate nominee

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Shareholders can hold their shares through the Company’s nominee service, Aviva Share Account Limited. Shareholders’ names will not appear on the public register but they will continue to have a right to receive shareholder communications and attend the Annual General Meeting. For further details contact the Registrar.

Share dealing

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The Company has arranged the following services that can be used to buy or sell Aviva shares. Alternatively, if shareholders hold a share certificate they can also use any bank, building society or stockbroker offering share dealing facilities to sell their shares. Shareholders in any doubt about buying or selling their shares should seek professional financial advice.

Share dealing facilities for UK shareholders/share account members

  • You can buy or sell shares via the internet or by telephone through Shareview Dealing, a share dealing service provided by Lloyds TSB Registrars. For internet purchases and sales log on to www.shareview.co.uk/dealing and for telephone purchases and sales call 0870 850 0852 between 8.00am and 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. All 0870 numbers are charged at national rates, and are only available if you are calling from the UK. Lloyds TSB Registrars is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, registered number 119278.
  • To buy or sell shares over the telephone, shareholders can contact Barclays Stockbrokers on 0870 549 3002 (for shareholders with a share certificate) or 0870 549 3001 (for shareholders with a share account statement). To check instructions and maintain high quality service standards, Barclays Stockbrokers may record and monitor calls. New Business Development hours are 8.00am and 6.00pm Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays. Barclays Stockbrokers is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, registered number 124247.
  • NatWest Stockbrokers provide a share dealing service either over the telephone or at certain NatWest branches for Aviva Share Account holders only. For more information contact NatWest Stockbrokers on 0845 122 0689. NatWest Stockbrokers Limited ("NWS") is a member of the London Stock Exchange and PLUS. NWS is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, registered number 124395. Registered Office: Waterhouse Square, 138-142 Holborn, London EC1N 2TH. Registered Number 1959479, England. NWS is operated by a joint venture between The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc and The Toronto-Dominion Bank.

Share dealing facilities for overseas shareholders

To sell Aviva shares over the telephone, shareholders can contact Barclays Stockbrokers on +44 (0)141 352 3959. Non UK residents will need to provide various documents in order to use this service and details will be provided on registration. Please note that regulations prevent this service from being offered to US, Canadian and Australian residents. Settlement proceeds will be sent to either a UK sterling bank account or by sterling cheque.

Shareholder Information

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ShareGift

The Orr Mackintosh Foundation operates a purely voluntary charity share donation scheme for shareholders who wish to dispose of small numbers of shares when the dealing costs or minimum fee makes it uneconomical to sell them. Details of the scheme are available from ShareGift at www.sharegift.org or can be obtained from the Company’s Registrar.

Keeping Your Shareholder Information Safe

In our 2007 AGM mailing to shareholders we included an insert advising shareholders to be vigilant in reducing the opportunities for share related fraud and identity theft. We have been contacted by a growing number of shareholders who have been approached by organisations claiming to be “investment specialists” acting on behalf of Aviva. Unfortunately, it is possible for such organisations to obtain names and addresses and holdings from the Aviva Share Register and Annual Returns which are both public records.

Aviva has not appointed or authorised any “investment specialists” to contact shareholders and you should be wary of any unsolicited calls or offers of advice. If you do receive such calls you should try and find out as much information about them as possible and report the matter to the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The FSA maintains a register of authorised persons and also on its website a list of unauthorised overseas firms who are targeting UK investors. See the FSA website www.fsa.gov.uk for more information. You should also inform the Company’s Registrar, Lloyds TSB Registrars, on 0870 600 3952.

Share price

Shareholders can access the current share price of Aviva plc ordinary shares at www.aviva.com or alternatively can call 0906 843 2197. Calls are currently charged at 60 pence per minute at all times. The average time to access the share price is approximately one minute.

Group financial calendar for 2007

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Announcement of third quarter long-term savings new business figures 25 October
   
Ordinary Shares  
Ex-dividend date* 19 September
Record date* 21 September
Scrip dividend price available* 26 September
Last date for scrip dividend forms to be received in order to be effective for 2007 interim dividend 19 October
Dividend payment date 16 November
*Please note that these dates differ from the provisional dates announced on 9 November 2006.
   
Preference Shares  
8 3/8% cumulative irredeemable preference shares  
Ex-dividend date 29 August
Record date 31 August
Second payment date 30 September
8 3/4% cumulative irredeemable preference shares  
Ex-dividend date 28 November
Record date 30 November
Second payment date 31 December

Useful contact details

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Detailed below are the contact details and various addresses that shareholders may find useful if they have a query in respect of their shareholding. Please quote Aviva plc, as well as the name and address in which the shares are held, in all correspondence. If you have a shareholder reference, please have this available as well.

General shareholding, administration queries
and Aviva share account queries:

Lloyds TSB Registrars, The Causeway,
Worthing, West Sussex BN99 6DA.
T: 0870 600 3952
www.shareview.co.uk
email: aviva@lloydstsb-registrars.co.uk

Corporate and single company Peps:
Barclays Stockbrokers Limited,
Tay House, 300 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4LH.
T: 0870 514 3263.
www.stockbrokers.barclays.co.uk

Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs):
Lloyds TSB Registrars (ISA Manager),
The Causeway, Worthing, West Sussex BN99 6DA.
T: 0870 242 4244

Internet sites

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Aviva owns various internet sites, most of which interlink with each other.

Aviva Group www.aviva.com
UK long-term savings and general insurance
www.norwichunion.com
Fund management
www.morleyfm.com
Aviva worldwide internet sites
www.aviva.com/websites

2007 Annual General Meeting – voting results

The voting results, including proxy votes and votes withheld, from Aviva’s Annual General Meeting held on 26 April 2007 can be viewed on the Company’s website at www.aviva.com/investors.

E-Communications

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At the 2007 Annual General Meeting, a resolution was passed to amend the Company’s Articles of Association to take full advantage of the provisions in the Companies Act 2006 in relation to electronic communications. In particular, the provisions enable all communications between the shareholder and the Company to be made in electronic form. Documents will be supplied via the Company’s website to shareholders who have not requested a hard copy or provided an e-mail address to which documents or information may be sent. If you wish to continue to receive hard copy documents and have previously not elected to do so, you should write to the Registrar. The wider use of electronic communications enables faster receipt of documents, reduces the Company’s printing, paper and postage costs and has a positive impact on the environment. If you have not already done so, to receive communications electronically, log onto www.aviva.com/shareholders and register for shareholder e-communications.

 
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