Why Aegon

At Aegon, every employee path is unique. We truly believe in a multi-stage life and career that supports it. 

As an international financial services group, we unite a diverse range of businesses that, together, help millions of people around the world live their best lives by offering a broad mix of investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Aegon is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands, and listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange. 

Our businesses

Our portfolio of businesses includes the fully owned subsidiaries, Transamerica in the US, Aegon UK, and a global asset management business. We also have partnerships in Brazil, China, France, Spain and Portugal. In the Netherlands, we generate value through our strategic shareholding in a market-leading insurance and pensions company. You can find more information about our company, history, purpose and strategy in our About us section. You can also sign up to our newsletter to get the latest updates about our company straight to your inbox. 

Our purpose

Aegon's purpose of Helping people live their best lives runs through all its activities. As a leading global investor and employer, the company seeks to have a positive impact by addressing critical environmental and societal issues, with a focus on climate change and inclusion & diversity.

We are in the midst of a living revolution. As recently as the late 20th century, life consisted of three stages: 20 years of education, 40 years of work, and a short retirement of perhaps 15-20 years. Fast forward to today, and life expectancy has soared. 50% of babies born in the US in 2007 will live to 104 or more. Broadly, the same holds true in all our markets. 

This is forcing a reimagining of how life should look, when we study, work, take breaks and change careers. The idea of a standard path no longer applies; there are as many options as there are lives.

At the same time, the financial industry has changed beyond recognition over the last few years, and continues to evolve at a rapid pace. These changes include increased longevity, a switch from face-to-face financial consultations to online, digital advancement that allows consumers to tailor online products to their individual needs, and of course stricter regulation.

To achieve this, our global workforce of 21,500 colleagues strive to continuously improve the way we work, learning from best practices around the world. Read more about our purpose

Your career at Aegon

At Aegon, every employee path is unique. We truly believe in a multi-stage life and career that supports it. Take a qualification. Pick up a development assignment. Fulfil your (career) ambitions. Leap into a whole new career. Take a period of leave that fits your stage of life. If it matters to you, we want to support you to make it happen. 

You would be joining a team that's endlessly curious about the world, trends and people in it. They seize every opportunity to learn from it, embrace different perspectives to be able to deliver an exceptional experience to our customers. 

Our people aim high, personally, and collectively. We build on each other’s ideas and turn them into great results. The creativity that comes from working with a broad diversity of people and your hands-on mentality will be key to this.

We strive to build a better world. We are united by a desire to improve every day, help others, and leave the planet better than we found it. 

Supporting sustainability

At Aegon, we seek to support the transition to a climate-resilient economy and a net-zero world. This means taking responsibility to manage our investments to take account of climate risk. In addition, we offer our customers products with climate resilience built in to accelerate the path to net-zero. Find out more about how we are contributing to combating climate change. 

Being and acting in an inclusive manner in everything we do is also a priority for us. Aegon's vision for inclusion and diversity is to build a fair and inclusive company, where we overcome obstacles to participation and increase our diversity so that everyone belongs, everyone plays a role in fostering inclusion, and we can all live our best life: in our workplace, our marketplace and our communities. 

Exceeding the high-performing norm

With so many high-performing professionals working together to exceed the expectations of our customers, there are plenty of opportunities for you to learn and develop.

And the wide variety of development opportunities across our broad organization, will enable you to take responsibility for your development.