Life insurance: new life, savings and pensions business up 2% against a market downturn of 4%.
Financial results1: continued strong growth in results
- Gross consolidated turnover, at €6,532 million in 2007, rises 2% (2006: €6,432 million)
- Operating profit (before tax) based on the EEV/IFRS embedded value1, up 30%, at €897 million (2006: €689 million)
- Operating profit (before tax) under IFRS standards, up 10%, at €501 million (2006: €457 million)
- Return on shareholders' equity2 at 16.4% (after tax) (2006: 14.0%)
Life insurance: new life, savings and pensions business3,4 up 2% against a market downturn of 4%
- New life, savings and pensions business3,4 up 2%, at € 5,347 million (2006: €5,222 million), against a downturn of 4% in the life insurance market. This amount includes AFER sales amounting to €2,627 million (2006: €2,428 million).
- Profits for new life business continue to rise, with a marked increase in the gross margin for new business, at 4.62% (2006: 4.29%)
- Life results based on EEV embedded value up 33%, at €784 million (2006: €591 million)
Asset management: sustained performance of funds under management
- Aviva Gestion d'Actifs confirms the consistency and quality of its management in the long term. Over eight years, 96% of Aviva Gestion d'Actifs's funds appear in the top 50% of funds in their category (over one year, 70%)
- In 2007, the fund manager was awarded four Trophies by French financial magazine Le Revenu and received one award each from Lipper and Citywire
- Aviva Gestion d'Actifs managed €74.2 billion at 31 December 2007 (31 December 2006: €72.9 billion)
Non-life insurance
- Gross turnover stood at €1,122 million (2006: €1,134 million), down 1%, with agents' business up 1%
- Personal insurance portfolio grew slightly with a return to positive net production for householder's comprehensive insurance due to the reorganisation of Domifacil
- Sustained improvement in profitability of non-life business with a COR5 of 98.7% (2006: 99.0%) and a return on shareholders' equity of 13.6% (2006: 11.4%)
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Press contacts :
Estelle Joubert
Telephone: 01 76 62 57 86
E-mail : estelle_joubert@aviva.fr
Laurent Gibert
Telephone: 01 76 62 73 00
E-mail : laurent_gibert@aviva.fr
1 Life insurance figures based on the EEV (European Embedded Value); other figures under IFRS standards
2 Operating profit (after tax) on shareholders' equity at the beginning of the financial year, based on EEV (non-life under IFRS standards)
3 Based on the PVNBP (Present Value of New Business Premiums)
4 New business figures for Aviva France do not include Fourgous transfers
5 Ratio of cost of claims over earned premiums + commission and costs over written premiums