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AEGON has businesses in more than twenty countries around the world, in Europe, the Americas and Asia. AEGON attaches great importance to local knowledge and local decision-making. Each of the Group's individual country and business units has a responsibility to identify and provide the products and services best suited to their markets. AEGON's ambition is to balance this local approach with the benefits and resources of an expanding global operation.
AMERICAS
Net operating earnings: 1,533 million
Revenue generating investments: 221.60 billion
Employees: 15,157
History: AEGON companies can trace their roots back to the mid-nineteenth century. Transamerica Life, meanwhile, has been present in the Canadian market since 1927, while in 2006 AEGON agreed a new joint venture with the Mexican life insurer, Seguros Argos.
Leading companies: Transamerica Life, Transamerica Occidental Life, Stonebridge Life, Life Investors, Monumental Life, Western Reserve Life, Transamerica Life Canada, Seguros Argos.
Main business lines: Life and protection, individual savings and retirement, pensions and asset management, institutional products, reinsurance.
EUROPE*
THE NETHERLANDS
Net operating earnings: 283 million
Revenue generating investments: 65.78 billion
Employees: 6,200
History: AEGON?s history in the Netherlands stretches back to the burial funds of the mid-nineteenth century. Today, AEGON The Netherlands is one of the country?s leading providers of life insurance and pensions.
Leading companies: AEGON Levensverzekering, AEGON Schadeverzekering, AEGON Bank, TKP Pensioen, Unirobe Meeůs, OPTAS.
Main business lines: Life and protection, individual savings and retirement, pensions and asset management, distribution, general insurance.
UNITED KINGDOM
Net operating earnings: 275 million
Revenue generating investments: 72.56 billion
Employees: 4,990
History: Scottish Equitable, acquired by AEGON in 1994, was founded in 1831.
Leading companies: AEGON Scottish Equitable, AEGON Asset Management, Guardian Assurance.
Main business lines: Life and protection, pensions and asset management, distribution.
OTHER COUNTRIES
Net operating earnings: 60 million
Revenue generating investments: 10.92 billion
Employees: 3,876
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
History: AEGON first entered Central and Eastern Europe in 1992 when it bought the former state-owned Hungarian insurer Állami Biztosító. Since then, the Group has expanded into four other countries ? Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
Leading companies: AEGON Czech Republic, AEGON Hungary, AEGON Poland, AEGON Slovakia, BT-AEGON (Romania)
Main business lines: Life and protection, individual savings and retirement, pensions and asset management, general insurance.
OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
History: AEGON has had businesses in Spain since 1980 while the Group?s partnership with French insurer La Mondiale goes back to 2002. In Spain, AEGON now has distribution partnerships in place with four regional savings banks.
Leading companies: AEGON Seguros de Vida, AEGON Seguros Salud, CAM AEGON Holding Financiero, CAN Vida y Pensiones, Caja Badajoz Vida y Pensiones, La Mondiale Participations (35%)
Main business lines: Life and protection, pensions and asset management.
ASIA
History: AEGON launched Taiwan as a greenfield operation in 1992. Since then, AEGON has opened businesses in China, Japan and India.
Leading companies: AEGON-CNOOC (China), AEGON Life Insurance (Taiwan).
Main business lines: Life and protection, pensions and asset management.
* Information as published in the 2007 Annual Report
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