Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Old Mutual Q1 profit up 5 pct, currency headwinds

(Reuters) - Insurer Old Mutual posted a 5 percent rise in first-quarter operating profit on Thursday, but said it expected exchange rates and infrastructure costs to continue to hold back growth this year.

South Africa's largest insurer, which is reporting first-quarter profits for the first time since it bought Sweden's Skandia last year, said adjusted operating profit, on an IFRS basis, was 398 million pounds.


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