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Interim dividend
Payment date
Record date
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The Board has declared a 7.35 pence per share interim dividend in respect of the 2021 financial year.
Find out more about our dividend history.
Payment options
You can choose how you’d like to receive your dividends:
1. Have your dividend paid in cash:
- into your UK bank account
- into your Eurozone bank account
- through the Global Payment Service provided by our Registrar, Computershare. This option lets you take your dividends in one of 127 currencies. Visit Computershare's FAQs for more information, including fees.
2. Join our Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP).This option lets you use your dividends to buy more Aviva ordinary shares, instead of taking them as cash.
There’s no entry fee and you can leave at any time at no charge. If you join you will pay commission, currently at 0.75% (subject to a minimum of £2.50), and stamp duty reserve tax, currently at 0.5%, on the market value of the Aviva ordinary shares we buy for you with your dividend payments. You can find full details in the DRIP terms and conditions.
If you’d like to join, do it online or by completing a form available from Computershare. You need to join at least 15 working days before a dividend payment date, or you’ll have to wait until your next dividend payment to get started.
Please note: our DRIP is available to ordinary shareholders and members of the Aviva Share Account. Our service is for shareholders in the UK and some countries outside Europe. This service is not available to shareholders resident in the European Union. See clause 2.1 of our terms and conditions.
Tell us how you want us to pay your dividends
You need to tell us, through Computershare, how you’d like us to pay your dividends. If we don’t get your payment instruction, we’ll hold your dividends for you. Once we get your instruction, we’ll pay any unpaid dividends to you free of charge (subject to currency charges).
Dividend policy
On 26 November, we announced a new sustainable and resilient dividend policy, based on our core markets of the UK, Ireland and Canada. As we simplify Aviva’s portfolio, we will deliver further value to shareholders by returning excess capital above 180% solvency cover ratio, once our debt leverage target has been reached. The expected 2020 total dividend of 21.0 pence per share is expected to grow by low to mid-single digits.
Current and historical dividend timetable
Ordinary/ADR shareholders
Aviva
* All dates are provisional until each dividend has been declared by the Board.
Preference shareholders
Aviva
# As the payment date falls on a non-working day, payment will be made on the first working day following the payment date.
* All dates are provisional until each dividend has been declared by the Board.
General Accident plc
# As the payment date falls on a non-working day, payment will be made on the first working day following the payment date.
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