ageas SA/NV — Major Shareholding Notification 2014

Jan 7, 2014

PRESS RELEASE

Brussels, 7 January 2014 – 17:40 (CET)

Regulated information - Ageas: notification

In accordance with the rules on financial transparency, Ageas advises today that, on 23 December 2013, its interest has reached the statutory threshold of 3% of its issued shares. This results from the share buy-back operation initiated on 2 August 2013.

The notifications received by Ageas are available on the Ageas website under "Investor relations – The share – Transparency requirements" (http://www.ageas.com/en/Pages/transparency\_requirements.aspx).

Ageas is an international insurance group with a heritage spanning more than 180 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, UK, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, China, Malaysia, India and Thailand and has subsidiaries in France, Hong Kong and 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 has a strong presence as the fourth largest player in private car insurance and the over 50's market. Ageas employs more than 13,000 people in the consolidated entities and over 20,000 in the non-consolidated partnerships and has annual inflows of more than EUR 21 billion.

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