The wife of Standard Life's chief executive has spent nearly £300,000 on a stake in the insurer, the day after the company announced it had a "good" 2010.
Caroline Nish, wife of David, bought 125,000 shares at 2,24p a time, taking the couple's stake to about 550,000 shares.
The UK's fourth-largest insurer reported inflows up 46% in 2010 and the insurer says it's made a strong start to 2011.
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"Our financial performance has been strong, with higher net flows and markets increasing the value of assets and revenues and leading to growth in profits," David Nish said.
"We've also made significant operational progress to drive efficiencies and are on track to meet our target of £100m of margin improvement by 2012."
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