AXA has completed the sale of its Canadian operations

Paris, --

AXA announced that it has successfully completed the sale of its Canadian operations in Property & Casualty and Life & Savings insurance to Intact Financial Corporation for a total cash consideration of CAD 2.6 billion (or ca. Euro 1.9 billion). In addition, AXA is entitled to receive up to CAD 100 million (or ca. Euro 72 million) in contingent consideration based on profitability metrics over a period of 5 years. This transaction generates an exceptional capital gain of approximately Euro 0.9 billion, which will be accounted for in Net Income.


About the AXA Group
The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 214,000 employees serving 95 million clients. In 2010, IFRS revenues amounted to Euro 91 billion and IFRS underlying earnings to Euro 3.9 billion. AXA had Euro 1,104 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2010.
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 Shares are 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.

This press release is available on the AXA Group website www.axa.com


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