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Lloyds will auction life insurance unit

Fri, 15 Jun 2007

The Lloyds TSB Group is all set to auction of the Abbey Life Insurance unit, which is reputedly valued at around 900 million pounds. The worth of existing life insurance policies with Abbey is expected to be around 1 billion pounds, yet in general businesses of this type are sold for less than actual value.

Lloyds have so far declined to comment on the matter, but a number of bids have been made. Buyers so far could include Swiss Re, Pearl Group and Resolution, all specialists in this field. Lloyds are currently looking for ways to release capital from their insurance units.

In response to the news, Lloyds shares climbed. Each of the companies rumoured to have placed a bid have declined to comment.
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