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Morgan Stanley Securities Limited10 October 2007 FORM 8.1 DEALINGS BY OFFERORS, OFFEREE COMPANIES OR THEIR ASSOCIATES FOR THEMSELVES OR FOR DISCRETIONARY CLIENTS (Rules 8.1(a) and (b)(i) of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers) 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of person dealing (Note 1) Morgan Stanley Securities Limited Company dealt in Friends Provident Plc Class of relevant security to which the Ordinary Sharesdealings being disclosed relate (Note 2) Date of dealing 09 October 2007 2. INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE (a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class ofrelevant security dealt in (Note 3) Long Short Number Number (%) (%) (1) Relevant securities 69,860 (0.00%) 2,539,263 (0.11%) (2) Derivatives (other than options) 0 N/A 0 N/A (3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell 0 N/A 0 N/A Total 69,860 (0.00%) 2,539,263 (0.11%) (b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company,other than the class dealt in (Note 3) Class of relevant security: Long Short Number Number (%) (%) (1) Relevant securities 0 N/A 0 N/A (2) Derivatives (other than options) 0 N/A 0 N/A (3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell 0 N/A 0 N/A Total 0 N/A 0 N/A (c) Rights to subscribe (Note 3) Class of relevant security: Details N/A N/A 3. DEALINGS (Note 4) (a) Purchases and sales Purchase/sale Number of securities Price per unit (Note 5) GBP PURCHASE 10,000 1.7610PURCHASE 3,000 1.7610PURCHASE 10,000 1.7610PURCHASE 4,985 1.7670PURCHASE 7,009 1.7670PURCHASE 3,885 1.7680PURCHASE 14,744 1.7680PURCHASE 9,903 1.7680PURCHASE 10,853 1.7680PURCHASE 9,969 1.7680PURCHASE 6,331 1.7680PURCHASE 11,807 1.7680PURCHASE 1,827 1.7680PURCHASE 26,266 1.7680PURCHASE 4,802 1.7690PURCHASE 9,700 1.7690PURCHASE 1,013 1.7690PURCHASE 1,249 1.7690PURCHASE 772 1.7690PURCHASE 600 1.7690PURCHASE 4,301 1.7690PURCHASE 189 1.7690PURCHASE 5,246 1.7690PURCHASE 1,311 1.7690PURCHASE 585 1.7690PURCHASE 6,861 1.7700PURCHASE 6,858 1.7700PURCHASE 3,900 1.7700PURCHASE 6,600 1.7710PURCHASE 68 1.7710PURCHASE 23,000 1.7750PURCHASE 1,000 1.7770SALE 15,000 1.7660SALE 1,000 1.7670SALE 5,285 1.7670SALE 2,515 1.7670SALE 9,800 1.7690SALE 1,500 1.7690SALE 6,500 1.7700SALE 200 1.7700SALE 425 1.7700SALE 43,475 1.7700SALE 3,900 1.7700SALE 1,423 1.7710SALE 16,375 1.7710SALE 3,602 1.7710SALE 1,400 1.7710SALE 5,800 1.7710SALE 5,000 1.7710SALE 13,100 1.7720SALE 3,000 1.7770 (b) Derivatives transactions (other than options) Product name, Long/short (Note 6) Number of securities (Note 7) Price per unit (Note 5)e.g. CFD N/A N/A N/A N/A (c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities (i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying Product name, Writing, selling, Number of securities Exercise Type, e.g. Expiry Option money purchasing, to which the option price American, date paid/received pere.g. call option varying etc. relates (Note 7) European etc. unit (Note 5) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A (ii) Exercising Product name, e.g. call option Number of securities Exercise price per unit (Note 5) N/A N/A N/A (d) Other dealings (including new securities) (Note 4) Nature of transaction (Note 8) Details Price per unit (if applicable) (Note 5) N/A N/A N/A 4. OTHER INFORMATION Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the persondisclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any relevantsecurities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the votingrights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which anyderivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should bestated. N/A Is a Supplemental Form 8 attached? (Note 9) YES Date of disclosure 10 October 2007 Contact name Darren Adam Telephone number 020 7677 2471 Name of offeree/offeror with which associated Pearl Assurance Plc (as an offeror for Resolution plc) Specify category and nature of associate status (Note 10) Advisor Notes The Notes on Form 8.1 can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website atwww.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk Supplemental Form 8: Details of open positions (in accordance with Note 9) Writing, selling, purchasing, Number of securities to which the option Exercise Expiryvarying etc. relates (Note 7) price (GBP) date SELLING 754,440 0.0000 05/12/2007PURCHASING 69,860 0.0000 05/12/2007SELLING 407,971 0.0000 05/12/2007SELLING 1,376,852 0.0000 05/12/2007 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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