AXA — M&A Activity 2013

Nov 29, 2013

PARIS, NOVEMBER 29, 2013

AXA to sell its Romanian operations

AXA announced today it has entered into an agreement with Astra Asigurari to sell its Life & Savings insurance operations in Romania and exit the Romanian market. Astra Asigurari is one of the leading Romanian insurance groups.

The parties agreed not to disclose the terms and conditions of the transaction.

Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals.

ABOUT THE AXA GROUP

The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 160,000 employees serving 102 million clients in 57 countries. In 2012, IFRS revenues amounted to Euro 90.1 billion and IFRS underlying earnings to Euro 4.3 billion. AXA had Euro 1,116 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2012.

The AXA ordinary share is listed on compartment A of Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol CS (ISN FR 0000120628 – Bloomberg: CS FP – Reuters: AXAF.PA). AXA's American Depository Share is also quoted on the OTC QX platform under the ticker symbol AXAHY.

The AXA Group is included in the main international SRI indexes, such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and FTSE4GOOD.

It is a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.

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