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AXA — Report Publication Announcement 2014
Nov 20, 2014
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Report Publication Announcement
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AXA PRESS RELEASE
PARIS, NOVEMBER 20, 2014
AXA held today its Investor Day dedicated to Savings and Asset Management.
The topics of the day included a focus on:
- New business strategy in Savings and Retirement
- Inforce portfolio management
- AXA US
- AXA France
- AXA Investment Managers
- AllianceBernstein
All the presentations as well as the podcast are available on AXA Group website: http://www.axa.com/en/investor/conferences/investordays/
An on-demand webcast will be available from November 21, 2014 at the same address.
During this event, AXA provided some updates on progress on its Ambition AXA strategic plan.
In Life & Savings, AXA continues to see a strong momentum in sales and expects to grow APE by at least 5% in FY14, on a comparable basis.
In Property & Casualty, AXA is experiencing some slowdown in revenue progression, but is still expecting growth for the year. It is reiterating its 96% combined ratio target by 2015, which would have already been reached in 2014 except for a higher than normal charge coming from Nat Cat - hailstorms in the spring in Europe and a hurricane in Mexico at the end of the third quarter.
AXA also indicated that it now expects at least USD 1 billion of debt to be reimbursed in 2014 by AXA Financial, the AXA US holding company, to AXA SA, as a testimony of the strong performance of the US operations and partly as a result of the closed MONY portfolio transaction in 2013. AXA's current definition of Remittance Ratio from entities to the Group1 does not include debt repayments from entities; if it were to do so, the impact on the Remittance Ratio due to this repayment would be at least +5 points in 2014.
ABOUT THE AXA GROUP
The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 157,000 employees serving 102 million clients in 56 countries. In 2013, IFRS revenues amounted to Euro 91.2 billion and IFRS underlying earnings to Euro 4.7 billion. AXA had Euro 1,113 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2013.
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.
THIS PRESS RELEASE IS AVAILABLE ON THE AXA GROUP WEBSITE www.axa.com
| Investor Relations: | +33.1.40.75.46.85 | Individual Shareholder Relations: | Media Relations: | +33.1.40.75.46.74 |
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| Andrew Wallace-Barnett:+33.1.40.75.46.85 | +33.1.40.75.48.43 | Garance Wattez-Richard: | +33.1.40.75.46.42 | |
| Yael Beer-Gabel: | +33.1.40.75.47.93 | Hélène Caillet: | +33.1.40.75.55.51 | |
| Florian Bezault: | +33.1.40.75.59.17 | Jean-Baptiste Mounier: | +33.1.40.75.49.68 | |
| Stéphanie Bonel: | +33.1.40.75.48.15 | |||
| Clemence Houssay: | +33.1.40.75.73.22 | |||
| Sulabh Kakkar: | +33.1.40.75.48.91 | |||
| Varvara Romanenco: | +33.1.40.75.73.63 |
IMPORTANT LEGAL INFORMATION AND CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements contained herein are forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements that are predictions of or indicate future events, trends, plans or objectives. Undue reliance should not be placed on such statements because, by their nature, they are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Please refer to the section "Cautionary statements" in page 2 of AXA's Document de Référence for the year ended December 31, 2013, for a description of certain important factors, risks and uncertainties that may affect AXA's business. AXA undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any of these forward-looking statements, whether to reflect new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise.