Managing your shareholding
Share Register Fraud: protecting your investment
It is required by law that our shareholder register is available for public inspection and we are unable to control the use of information obtained by persons inspecting the register. Please treat any approaches purporting to originate from RSA with caution. RSA will never contact its shareholders directly to provide recommendation or advice regarding your shareholding and neither does it appoint third parties to do so.
Tips on protecting your shares
- Keep any documentation that contains your shareholder reference number in a safe place and destroy any documentation which you no longer need by shredding it
- Inform Equiniti promptly when you change your address
- Be aware of dividend payment dates and contact the registrars if you do not receive your dividend cheque, or better still, make arrangements to have the dividend paid directly into your bank account
- Consider holding your shares electronically in a CREST account via a nominee.
Amalgamation of accounts
Shareholders who receive duplicate sets of Company mailings owing to multiple accounts in their name should write to Equiniti to request that their accounts be amalgamated.
Low cost share dealing facilities
A telephone and internet dealing service is available through Equiniti which provides a simple way of buying and selling RSA shares. Commission is 1% with a minimum charge of £25 for telephone dealing and 0.5% with a minimum charge of £15 for internet dealing. For telephone sales call +44 (0)845 6037 037 between 8.30am and 4.30pm, Monday to Friday, and for internet sales log on to www.shareview.co.uk/dealing. You will need your shareholder reference number as shown on your share certificate. Share dealing services are also widely provided by other organisations.
ShareGift
Shareholders with a small number of shares, the value of which makes it uneconomic to sell them, may wish to consider donating them to charity through ShareGift, a registered charity administered by The Orr Mackintosh Foundation, registered charity number 1052686. The relevant share transfer form can be obtained from Equiniti. Further details can be obtained from:
ShareGift
17 Carlton House Terrace,
London SW1Y 5AH
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7930 3737
www.sharegift.org
Capital gains tax
The market value at 31 March 1982 of each post consolidation ordinary share of 27.5p in the Company, for capital gains tax purposes after relevant adjustments, was 146.41p (25p shares 133.1p) for former Royal Insurance shareholders and 57.97p (25p shares 52.7p) for former Sun Alliance shareholders. An adjustment to tax cost is required to take account of the 2003 rights issue, according to whether the rights were taken up or sold. Similarly, for former Royal Insurance shareholders an adjustment to tax cost is required to take account of the 1993 rights issue, according to whether the rights were taken up or sold.
Disabled shareholders
RSA is committed to providing a quality service to all of its shareholders. An induction loop is installed at the AGM venue. Please contact the Company Secretary's department at the address above if you require particular assistance.
The Unclaimed Assets Register
RSA supplies unclaimed dividend data to The Unclaimed Assets Register (UAR), which provides investors who have lost track of shareholdings with the opportunity to search the UAR's database of unclaimed financial assets on payment of a small, fixed fee. The UAR donates part of the search fee to charity. Further details can be obtained from: The Unclaimed Assets Register, 6th Floor, Cardinal Place, 80 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL. Telephone: +44 (0)870 241 1713. The website address is www.uar.co.uk.
American Depositary Receipts
The Company terminated its listing, in the form of American Depositary Shares, on the New York Stock Exchange on 30 October 2006.
Should you have an enquiry relating to the above please contact the Investor Relations department at Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc, 9th Floor, One Plantation Place, 30 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 3BD. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7111 7136.