Standard Life Deadline Approaches

Dividend: The deadline for Standard Life shareholders to return their dividend form is fast approaching.

Forms must arrive with the Company's Share Registrar (Computershare) by midnight (UK time) on Tuesday 15 May.

The dividend form gives shareholders three options as to how to receive their dividends - these are: Reinvest the dividend in Standard Life plc shares.

Receive cash dividend payments in a bank or building society.

Receive cash dividend payments by cheque (this is the default position, if shareholders have not chosen the dividend repayment option or given their banks or building society details.

The dividend payment date is 31 May 2007 with shareholders expected to receive their payment/shares from this date.

Cheques will be posted from this date and will take longer to arrive.

The dividend is 5.4p in respect of the period from the Company's flotation on 10 July 2006 to the year-end.

AGM and Voting: Shareholders also have an AGM voting form to return (again to Computershare) by midnight (UK time) on 27 May.

This allows shareholders to vote on 11 resolutions at the Company AGM on Tuesday 29 May at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

This will be the Company's first AGM as a listed plc.

Both forms can be returned in the business reply envelope which was sent to shareholders as part of the Company's AGM mailing.

The AGM mailing began on 19 April and was sent to 1.5million shareholders in over 50 countries.

204 different combinations of the pack were issued.

Standard Life shareholder base 65% of Standard Life's total shareholding is held by retail shareholders and 35% by institutions.

Over 70% of members of The Standard Life Assurance Company kept their shares following the flotation of Standard Life plc.

Over 160,000 of members of The Standard Life Assurance Company bought additional shares.

Over 100,000 customers bought discounted shares.

Over 99% of shareholders are also customers.

Over 99% of employees own shares.

If you need any further information then please call me on 0131 245 6165 or Scott White on 0131 245 5422.

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