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Financial review  
         
  Nine year review  
  Salient features*  
 
For the year ended 31 March** 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
Income statement and selected returns                  
View bar chart Adjusted earnings attributable to ordinary shareholders before goodwill and non-operating items  (£'000) 344 695 300 704 230 017 149 510 106 203 89 668 127 613 100 906 87 246
View bar chart Operating profit before goodwill, non-operating items and taxation (£'000) 537 671 466 585 388 767 224 124 132 260 85 762 158 567 133 196 123 474
View bar chart Operating profit:Southern Africa (% of total) 63.2% 57.6% 68.3% 66.9% 58.6% 81.0% 51.6% 25.6% 15.4%
View bar chart Operating profit: UK, Europe, Australia and Other (% of total) 36.8% 42.4% 31.7% 33.1% 41.4% 19.0% 48.4% 74.4% 84.6%
View bar chart Cost to income ratio 56.1% 59.0% 58.7% 67.4% 72.7% 80.0% 72.0% 72.6% 70.2%
View bar chart Staff compensation to operating income ratio 37.2% 40.9% 40.1% 43.4% 47.3% 51.1% 44.5% 45.5% 43.6%
View bar chart Return on average adjusted shareholders’ equity 23.6% 26.1% 25.5% 20.0% 15.4% 13.1% 19.4% 18.2% 16.9%
View bar chart Net interest income as a percentage of operating income 39.3% 29.2% 26.8% 23.2% 18.8% 21.3% 26.5% 28.9% 24.6%
View bar chart Non-interest income as a percentage of operating income 60.7% 70.8% 73.2% 76.8% 81.2% 78.7% 73.5% 71.1% 75.4%
View bar chart Effective tax rate 22.6% 26.3% 27.3% 28.8% 21.0% 6.3% 18.0% 22.6% 29.2%
                     
Balance sheet                  
View bar chart Total capital resources (including subordinated liabilities (£'million) 3 275 2 665 2 042 1 579 1 303 1 012 958 842 639
View bar chart Total shareholders’equity (including preference shares and minority interests) (£'million) 2 210 1 820 1 512 1 076 805 679 768 603 555
View bar chart Total assets (£'million) 34 104 26 300 23 901 19 917 15 319 14 914 16 957 15 984 16 030
View bar chart Core loans and advances  (£'million) 12 854 10 095 9 605 6 408 4 846 3 909 3 314 3 299 3 083
View bar chart Core loans and advances as a percentage of total assets 37.7% 38.4% 40.2% 32.2% 31.6% 26.2% 19.5% 20.6% 19.2%
View bar chart Third party assets under management (£'million) 52 749 56 121 56 331 33 855 30 138 24 088 24 741 23 084 24 157
View bar chart Capital adequacy ratio: Investec plcº 15.3% 24.7% 17.7% 16.1% 17.3% 14.2% ^ ^ ^
View bar chart Capital adequacy ratio: Investecº Limited 13.9% 14.7% 16.3% 17.9% 15.1% 12.2% ^ ^ ^
                     
Salient financial features and key statistics                  
View bar chart Adjusted earnings per share before goodwill and non-operating items (pence)# 56.9 53.3 41.9 26.9 20.8 19.2 28.0 25.2 22.0
View bar chart Basic earnings per share
(pence)#
57.7 54.7 53.8 17.8 12.0 (13.4) 3.0 19.8 18.0
View bar chart Diluted earnings per share (pence)# 54.0 50.4 50.0 17.1 11.9 (13.4) 2.8 19.3 17.9
View bar chart Dividends per share (pence)# 25.0 23.0 18.2 13.4 11.6 10.8 10.8 ^^13.7 ^^12.3
View bar chart Dividend cover (times) 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.0 1.8 1.8 2.6 1.8 1.8
View bar chart Net tangible asset value per share  (pence)# 215.0 178.6 148.9 99.2 83.0 75.0 74.8 ^ ^
View bar chart Weighted number of ordinary shares in issue  (million)# 606.2 563.8 548.8 555.5 511.5 466.5 456.5 401.0 397.0
View bar chart Total number of shares in issue (million)# 657.6 609.3 593.0 593.0 593.0 565.0 461.0 405.0 403.0
View bar chart Closing share price (pence)# 339 658 588 311 218 123 161 346 497
View bar chart Market capitalisation (£'million) 2 229 4 009 3 488 1 844 1 292 695 742 1 400 2 005
View bar chart Number of employees in the group 6 333 5 430 4 453 4 163 4 458 4 874 5 529 4 836 4 441
View bar chart Average ZAR/£ exchange rate 14.31 13.38 11.43 11.47 12.02 15.04 13.65 10.82 9.93
 
 
* Refer to the definitions.
** The numbers prior to 2005 are reported in terms of UK GAAP, and thereafter in terms of IFRS.
^ Calculation not comparable.
º The information for 2008 is in terms of Basel II and prior to that in terms of Basel I.
^^ The dividend for 2000 and 2001 was set in Rand and the dividend thereafter was determined in Pounds Sterling. The Rand dividend per share for 2000 and 2001 was 620 cents and 750 cents, respectively. 
# For comparative purposes historical information has been adjusted for the 5:1 share split that took place on 4 September 2006. 
 
     
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