Full Year results stated:
Profit in 2017 rose, and that it expects to return £500mln in excess cash to shareholders in 2018
Adjusted operating profit climbed 2% to £3.07bln in 2017
Pretax profit rose to £2.37bln from £1.83bln in 2016
Gross written premiums rose to £27.61bln from £25.44bln
The company declared a final dividend of 19 pence a share. This brings its total dividend a share for 2017 to 27.40 pence
Aiming to increase its operating earnings per share by more than 5%
As of 9.20am the stock was trading down c.1.94% at c.498p