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MONDAY, APRIL 30: XL Group announced today the board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.11 per ordinary share payable on the company’s ordinary shares.

The dividend will be payable on July 2, 2012 to ordinary shareholders of record as of June 15, 2012.

XL also announced the board of directors of its wholly owned subsidiary XLIT Ltd. resolved on April 26 to pay a dividend of $9.06373 per share on XLIT Ltd’s Series D Preference Ordinary Shares, which dividend will be paid on July 16, 2012 to all shareholders of record as of July 1, 2012.

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