Share Interests

Old Mutual PLC
13 October 2006

                                 Old Mutual plc

                                Share interests

Old Mutual plc (the 'Company') has today received a notice dated 12 October 2006
informing the Company that Franklin Resources, Inc. and its affiliates had at
that date a notifiable interest, for the purposes of Part VI of the UK Companies
Act 1985, in 5.03% of the Company's ordinary share capital, represented by an
aggregate holding of 275,803,230 shares.

Further details of the shareholdings making up this aggregate figure are as
follows:

   • Bank of New York, London branch                2,591,080 shares
   • Citibank, London                               4,415,100 shares
   • Euroclear Bruxelles                               37,010 shares
   • HSBC Bank Plc                                    699,956 shares
   • JP Morgan Chase, London                      222,431,619 shares
   • Mellon Bank NA                                 6,814,110 shares
   • Merrill Lynch International Limited            4,841,250 shares
   • Northern Trust Company, London                 1,034,380 shares
   • Northern Trust Company, Luxembourg               248,867 shares
   • Royal Trust Corp of Canada, London             8,264,830 shares
   • State Street Bank, London                     24,425,028 shares


                                                                 13 October 2006



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