{"id":179686,"date":"2024-09-01T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T07:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-old-mutual-announces-sh327mn-net-profit-in-h1\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T07:05:51","slug":"kenya-old-mutual-announces-sh327mn-net-profit-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-old-mutual-announces-sh327mn-net-profit-in-h1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Old Mutual Announces Sh327mn Net Profit in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Old Mutual Holdings has announced a Sh327 million profit after tax in the six months ending June 30, 2024, an improvement from a Sh195 million loss during a similar period last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The firm attributes profitability to a reduction in finance costs, which fell from Sh1.8 billion to Sh529 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;This reduction followed the conversion of shareholder borrowing to equity in 2023 which is awaiting all the necessary regulatory approvals,&#8221; Old Mutual said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;Additionally, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408300456.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Old Mutual Holdings has announced a Sh327 million profit after tax in the six months ending June 30, 2024, an improvement from a Sh195 million loss during a similar period last year. The firm attributes profitability to a reduction in finance costs, which fell from Sh1.8 billion to Sh529 million. &#8220;This reduction followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":179687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4334,4688,430,10939,20460,257,15693,49410,254],"class_list":["post-179686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announces","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mutual","tag-net","tag-news","tag-profit","tag-sh327mn","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}