Investment platform AJ Bell to pay special dividend after robust earnings

- AJ Bell announced a special dividend on Thursday after reporting robust annual profit on the back of record customer additions and strong inflows into its investment platforms.

The company said its pretax profit rose 13% to 55.1 million pounds ($73.20 million) for the year ended September 2021. It proposed a special dividend of 5 pence per share.

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