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Financial Highlights

Close Brothers Group has a financial year end of 31 July.

 FY 2009FY 2008FY 2007FY 2006FY 2005
Adjusted operating income (£m)1502.1452.7585.7536.3447.5
Adjusted operating profit (£m)1113.7127.5172.8157.3129.5
Operating profit before tax (£m)188.3118.4190.2157.3111.8
Basic EPS (p)143.658.390.474.149.8
Basic EPS: continuing and discontinued operations (p)50.561.590.474.149.8
Adjusted EPS (p)160.563.782.874.162.0
DPS (p)39.039.037.032.528.5
Total equity (£m)697.7720.4752.6662.4578.4
Total assets (£bn)6.05.85.44.84.8

As at 31 July 2009 the group had a total capital ratio of 16.6% and a core tier 1 capital ratio of 14.8%.

In 2007, a special dividend of 25.0p was paid in addition to the ordinary dividend above.

¹FY 2009 & FY 2008 are on a continuing operations basis and exclude both the trading result and gain on disposal related to the Corporate Finance division, the sale of which was completed on 1 July 2009