All the headlines from our Aviva France Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 14 2021 // Aviva Plc, the UK insurer and asset manager, warned the government that new safety proposals for high-rise apartment blocks could steer institutional investors away from the residential property market.The company last...
Jun 9 2021 // Swedish activist investor Cevian Capital AB has bought almost 5% of Aviva Plc, placing it among the insurer’s top three holders.Christer Gardell, managing partner at Cevian, said the Stockholm-based investor now...
May 20 2021 // Insurer Aviva said it will close three UK property funds in July that have been suspended since March last year due to market uncertainty as the pandemic hit Britain’s economy.“During this period of economic...
Mar 26 2021 // RSA has named appointments for chair and CFO of its UK and International business entities, following the completion of Intact Financial Corp.’s proposed takeover.Mark Hodges, former CEO of Aviva’s UK business...
Mar 26 2021 // Allianz SE, Europe’s largest insurer, is to purchase the Polish operations of Aviva Plc for 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion).The deal values London-based Aviva’s Polish business at 2.7 billion euros, according...
Mar 25 2021 // MILAN – Italian insurer Generali has nudged up its bid for Aviva’s Polish arm, valuing the business at almost 2.5 billion euros ($3 billion), in a last-ditch effort to prevail over Dutch insurer NN, two sources...
Mar 5 2021 // Aviva Plc is searching for a new City of London headquarters as the UK insurer prepares to slash its office footprint.The firm started looking for new offices in the financial district early last year, but shelved its...
Mar 4 2021 // Aviva Plc has exited its Italian businesses in a pair of deals totaling 873 million euros ($1.1 billion) as the UK insurer continues to pivot to its core markets.CNP Assurances and Allianz SE bought the London-based...
Mar 1 2021 // British insurer Aviva plans to become a net zero carbon emissions company by 2040, it said on Monday, claiming this was the most demanding target set by any major insurer worldwide.Following the 2015 Paris Agreement on...
Feb 25 2021 // Sonia Kundi has joined the Zurich North America Group Risk Management team as Canada chief risk officer, effective immediately.She reports to North America Chief Risk Officer Colleen Zitt and will be a member of her...
Feb 25 2021 // LONDON – Aviva has pushed back the deadline for final offers for its Polish operations to late March as the British insurer is still haggling with Spanish lender Santander over the renewal of a key distribution agreement...
Feb 23 2021 // Aviva Plc agreed to sell its French business for 3.2 billion euros ($3.9 billion), the largest deal so far in Chief Executive Officer Amanda Blanc’s push to streamline the UK insurer.The unit was sold to French...
Feb 16 2021 // Aviva Plc, the British insurer, is in advanced talks on a sale of its Italian operations as it pushes ahead with about 6 billion euros ($7.3 billion) of divestments, people with knowledge said.The U.K. company is in...
Feb 1 2021 // LONDON – Aviva Investors said on Monday it could ditch its stock and bond holdings in 30 of the world’s biggest corporate emitters of carbon if their boards failed to take sufficient action over climate change.The...
Jan 22 2021 // Patrick Tiernan will be joining Lloyd’s of London in the newly-created role of chief of Markets, where he will will oversee market performance and distribution. Tiernan will join Lloyd’s from Aviva where he is...
Jan 20 2021 // AXIS Insurance, the specialty insurance business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., announced the hiring of two additional underwriters within its global Renewable Energy business.Nicholas Boswell Brown and Claire...
Dec 14 2020 // British insurer Aviva PLC is selling its Vietnamese business to Canadian insurer ManuLife Financial Corp, it said on Monday, as it pushes ahead with plans to pull out from its non-core markets.Aviva, under new boss Amanda...
Dec 7 2020 // Aviva announced the appointment of Adam Winslow as CEO of International. This is a new role at Aviva and Winslow will join the group executive committee, reporting to Amanda Blanc.Winslow will join Aviva in January and...
Nov 30 2020 // Aviva Plc Chief Executive Officer Amanda Blanc confirmed the company was in talks to sell units in France, Poland and Italy as part of her overhaul of the insurance giant.The company is still in the “early stages for...
Nov 24 2020 // Aviva Plc is selling its stake in its Italian life insurance joint venture for about 400 million euros ($475 million) as Chief Executive Officer Amanda Blanc continues her revamp of the firm.The insurer will sell its 80%...