I hold these stock.

DYOH (do your own homework.)

To-day there was a slight drop in price, but number of analysts are giving favourable reports.

What triggered my interest was better than expected results and if I am right looking at charts it shows an inverted head and shoulders. Hopefully a good sign. Also the current rate of Share price growth is about 90% pa over the last 5weeks. This is unlikely to continue indefinitely but SP could hit 850p over next few weeks.

To-day at close, there were some large buys of about 5million shares. 40million approx.

Another trigger for me was the following which should increase earnings.

Aviva to form JV in Taiwan with First FinancialAFX
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Aviva PLC, the UK's largest insurer, said it has entered into a joint venture with First Financial Holding Co Ltd to sell insurance and pension products in Taiwan. The joint venture company, First-Aviva, will distribute long-term savings and pension products in Taiwan through an exclusive agreement with First Financial's flagship unit, First Commercial Bank. Aviva, which will have a 49 pct stake in the joint venture, added that the initial paid up capital of the new company will be 34 mln stg.First Commercial Bank is Taiwan's second largest bank network, with five mln retail customers, it added.TFN.newsdesk@thomson.comkkb/faj/slm




Date: Wednesday 25 Apr 2007
LONDON (ShareCast) - If the message gets home that Aviva will not bid for Prudential, the stock should rebound strongly, especially if Aviva can sustain its current impressive performance. There is still work to be done but, at 794.5p, the shares are a strong buy says the Independent.
Date: Tuesday 24 Apr 2007
LONDON (ShareCast) - Aviva stood out among the risers on a tough day for blue chip stocks. The life insurer posted an upbeat first quarter statement with brokers pleased with the numbers.



DYOH

Let's hope lord Gnome!

AVIVA APPOINTS PATRICIA CROSS AS NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Aviva plc ("Aviva") has appointed Patricia Cross as an independent non-executive director of the Board with effect from 1 December 2013. She will also join the Board Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees.

Patricia has over thirty years' experience as both an executive and non-executive director across a wide range of financial services and other regulated industries in the US, Europe and Australia. She has served as a non-executive director of ASX-50 Australian companies for seventeen years, and is currently a non-executive director of Macquarie Group Limited and Macquarie Bank Limited where she is chairman of the Risk Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. She is also a non-executive director at Qantas Airways Limited where she is chairman of the Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees.

Until recently, Patricia was a non-executive director of National Australia Bank Limited (owner of Clydesdale Bank plc in the UK), where she chaired the Remuneration Committee, was a nominated FCA Approved Person, served as a Director of the wealth management subsidiary JB Were Pty Ltd, and was a member of the Risk and Nomination Committees. She has previously been a non-executive director of Wesfarmers Limited, Suncorp-Metway Limited and AMP Limited, all listed companies in Australia, and also served as Chairman of Qantas Superannuation Limited (the Qantas pension fund) and Deputy Chairman of the monoline third party insurer TAC in Victoria. Prior to becoming a non-executive director, Patricia worked for sixteen years in senior executive positions at National Australia Bank Limited, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chase Investment Bank and Banque Nationale de Paris.

Interim Management Statement

Canaccord Genuity Buy 434.15 460.00 460.00 Reiterates

Societe Generale Buy 434.15 560.00 560.00 Retains

Barclays Capital Underweight 434.15 - - Reiterates

JP Morgan Cazenove Overweight 434.15 486.00 486.00 Reiterates

I like the sound of 560. Thanks Societe Generale. They must be long on Aviva!

Aviva to Sell Stake in Italian Insurer Eurovita

AVIVA TO SELL STAKE IN ITALIAN INSURER EUROVITA


Aviva plc ("Aviva") announces today that it has reached a conditional agreement to sell its entire 39% stake in Eurovita Assicurazioni S.p.A. ("Eurovita") to JC Flowers ("JCF")1 for a total consideration of €33m, payable in cash. Proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.The sale is subject to approval by IVASS, the Italian insurance regulator.

If approved, the transaction would increase Aviva's economic capital surplus by £0.1bn and will have no impact on Aviva's IFRS net assets. The agreement represents further progress in Aviva's strategy to focus our Italian business on more profitable, capital efficient products.

Eurovita is an Italian life insurer which distributes guaranteed savings products through a network of local and regional Italian banks. Eurovita contributed £6m to Aviva's IFRS profit after minorities in the first half of 2013. Eurovita had ca. £3bn IFRS total assets at 30 June 2013.

Eurovita is majority owned by Aviva and Banco Popolare. Banco Popolare has agreed to sell its entire stake in Eurovita to JCF.

Nomura Buy 424.90 424.90 474.00 489.00 Retains

12 month high @454.40p

I've sold some @454.12p

I'm sticking with mine for the present, Skinny. Mine aren't held in an ISA and I have used up my CGT allowance for this year. A sell now would be very expensive. Very fortunate in some ways as I would have sold out at 445 if I had been free to do so.

Looking strong.

Citigroup Buy 478.85 502.00 525.00 Retains

480p has been a step too far twice - 3rd time lucky?

Can't get the monitor page this morning.
Anybody else having problems ?

Yes , Av. looking strong but top of it recent trading range .

I had expected that the recent flooding problems might adversely affect this insurer. Apparently not or not yet .

Citigroup Buy 475.00 476.20 525.00 525.00 Retains

Aviva and Astra International Joint Venture

AVIVA AND ASTRA INTERNATIONAL SIGN JOINT VENTURE IN INDONESIA

§ Astra International and Aviva join forces to create life insurer Astra Aviva Life
§ Partnership between Indonesia's largest publicly listed company and the UK's largest insurer in one of Asia's fastest growing markets
§ Joint venture to serve both Astra customer network and the wider market in Indonesia

PT Astra International Tbk ("Astra"), Indonesia's largest publicly listed company and Aviva plc ("Aviva"), the UK's largest insurer, today signed an agreement to form Astra Aviva Life, a 50-50 joint venture to sell and distribute life insurance products in Indonesia.

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Through 480 this time ?

Ex-divi wed 5th Mar (4.1875p)

Is this a drop in divi?

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Buy 461.40 462.50 - 540.00 Retains

Skinny,

I flogged the majority of my holdings in these yesterday.

Satisfied with return.

As stated somewhere else I thought projected fundamentals and charts were not showing overbought and medium term trend OK.

However, I am wondering what the effects of the cost of "Flooding" will have in the short term.

Also pull out of sbs on OML and RSA.

Still wondering!

But trawling thro' charts of Ft 350 the majority are seem moving into overbought short term territory!

I'm holding for now but am looking to reduce - 480p seems to be a step too far for these, having looked at it 3 times since 2009.

I agree it is becoming difficult to find investments with reasonably upside potential.