Julian Roberts
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"Richard Julian Roberts" Society of Antiquaries of London/FSA was a British librarian, bibliographer, and scholar.

Roberts was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he started reading Literae Humaniores/Classics, but switched to English literature/English in his first year.

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Although we have had indications from certain Skandia shareholders that they do not accept, this has got a long way to go.

That is why we'd like to complete the transaction as fast as we possibly can.

There is a degree of uncertainty, yes.

That is a significant level.

The three top shareholders (Fidelity, Cevian and Burdaras) are very much in favor of the transaction. We are confident that the compelling logic of the transaction is coming through.

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

In many respects we have bought companies that are fundamentally strong, but have issues that we believe our management and our expertise can help resolve.

I think probably it is very tough out there at the moment (for Skandia) with what has been going on.

The (threshold in the) prospectus is at 90 percent. We want the whole of the company.