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ageas SA/NV — AGM Information 2014
Apr 30, 2014
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AGM Information
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PRESS RELEASE
Brussels, 30 April 2014 - 17:40 (CET)
Regulated information – Resolutions of the General Meetings of Shareholders of ageas SA/NV on 30 April 2014
The Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meetings of Shareholders of ageas SA/NV have approved all the proposals submitted to it by the Board of Directors.
36.35% of the share capital was represented.
The General Meetings of Shareholders have approved:
- the company's statutory annual accounts for the financial year 2013;
- the payment of a gross cash dividend of EUR 1.40 per Ageas share1 ;
- the remuneration report;
- the cancellation of the shares bought back (programme announced on 12 August 2013; cancellation of all shares bought back up to and including 31 December 2013);
- the reappointment of Mr Roel Nieuwdorp as an independent non-executive member of the Board of Directors, for a period of 3 years, until the close of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in 2017;
- the nomination of Mrs Davina Bruckner as a non-executive member of the Board of Directors for a period of 3 years, until the close of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in 2017.
The Meetings have also approved the other agenda points, including the amendments to the Articles of Association. Lastly, the Meetings approved the proposal to discharge the members of the Board of Directors for the financial year 2013.
As the total distributions over 2013 per share (i.e. the amount of the dividend and the amount of the capital reduction) exceeded 5% of the Ageas volume weighted average price on the day of the dividend announcement, the holders of FRESH and CASHES securities are entitled to a Capital Distribution as defined in the terms and conditions of these securities. Therefore, an amount of respectively EUR 649.10 and EUR 854.07 will be paid per FRESH and CASHES security2 . Total payment to FRESH and CASHES holders amounts to EUR 7 million while total payment (dividend and capital reduction) to shareholders amounted to EUR 532 million.
The video shown during the meeting and reviewing the key events of 2013 as well as the results of the votes are available on ageas.com, in the section "Investors/ General meeting of shareholders".
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1 Dividend: the meeting declared a gross cash dividend of EUR 1.40 per Ageas share for the financial year 2013. The timetable is as follows: 5 May 2014: ex-dividend date; 13 May 2014: payment date (coupon no.3). More information of the fiscal treatment of the dividend can be found on http://www.ageas.com/en/investors/dividend.
2 Payment per FRESH (ISIN: XS0147484074 & XS0147484314) and CASHES (ISIN: BE0933899800) denomination of EUR 250,000. The timetable is as follows: 5 May 2014: record date, 13 May 2014: payment date.
Ageas is an international insurance group with a heritage spanning 190 years. Ranked among the top 20 insurance companies in Europe, Ageas has chosen to concentrate its business activities in Europe and Asia, which together make up the largest share of the global insurance market. These are grouped around four segments: Belgium, United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Asia and served through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors around the world. Ageas operates successful partnerships in Belgium, the UK, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, China, Malaysia, India and Thailand and has subsidiaries in France, Hong Kong and the UK. Ageas is the market leader in Belgium for individual life and employee benefits, as well as a leading non-life player through AG Insurance. In the UK, Ageas is the second largest Motor insurer and has a strong presence in the growing over 50's market. Ageas employs more than 13,000 people in the consolidated entities and over 30,000 in the non-consolidated partnerships, and has annual inflows of more than EUR 23 billion.