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AXA Consolidated Revenues Up 3.5 Percent

Jul 30 2003 // AXA reported consolidated revenues of Euro 37.5 billion for the first half of 2003. On a comparable basis (adjusted for scope and currency changes), revenues grew by 3.5 percent compared to the same period last year. On a...

General Re Announces Purchase of AXA Konzern’s Share of Joint Venture

Jul 14 2003 // General Re Corporation announces it has purchased AXA Konzern AG’s 49.9 percent shareholding in a Luxembourg-based joint venture company which owns 12,324,090 shares, or about 58.9 percent, of Kolnische...

AXA Files Form 20-F With the SEC; Reduces Income Figures

Jul 1 2003 // France’s AXA SA announced that, following discussions, it has filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2002 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The figures were compiled using...

Best Announces Rating Actions on AXA’s Canadian Subsidiaries

May 19 2003 // A.M. Best Co. announced several ratings actions affecting the AXA Group’s Canadian subsidiary companies, affirming some ratings, and lowering others.It has affirmed the financial strength ratings of A+ (Superior) of...

AXA’s Gerard de La Martiniere to Head French Insurance Organization; Denis Duverne Elected to Board

May 14 2003 // Gerard de La Martiniere, the member of AXA’s Management Board in charge of Finance, Control and Strategy has been elected Chairman of the French Federation of Insurance Companies (F.F.S.A.), effective immediately,...

AXA Reports Q1 Total Revenues at $23.5 Billion

May 13 2003 // AXA, the Paris-based global financial and insurance group, reported slightly lower total revenues for the first quarter of 2003 of 20.431 billion Euros ($23.495 billion), down 3.3 percent in absolute terms compared to the...

AXA Shows $3.1 Billion 2002 Loss Under U.S. GAAP Rules

Apr 10 2003 // France’s AXA Group revealed a nasty surprise when it filed its consolidated financial statements with the COB, the French financial regulatory authority. Under U.S. GAAP accounting rules the group posted an overall...

AXA Group to Make Changes in Supervisory Board

Apr 9 2003 // France’s Axa Group issued a bulletin noting proposed changes in its supervisory board in advance of the planned shareholders meeting scheduled April 30. The board’s selection committee has recommended that Ezra...

Report AXA to Sell Stake in Cologne Re to General Re

Mar 31 2003 // Axa Konzern, a German subsidiary of France’s AXA Group, will reportedly sell its 49.9 percent stake in General RE-CKAG, an intermediary company controlled by Berkshire Hathaway’s General Re, that owns slightly...

Moody’s Lowers AXA’s Debt Ratings

Mar 20 2003 // Moody’s Investors Service announced that it has lowered the debt ratings of France’s AXA group to A2 from A1 for senior debt, and to A3 from A2 for subordinated and junior subordinated debt, “reflecting a...

Hans-Peter Gerhardt Named New AXA RE CEO

Mar 19 2003 // France’s AXA Group announced that Hans-Peter Gerhardt, currently a member of the Executive Committee and Vice-President of the Board of Directors of General Cologne Re will join AXA RE as CEO, effective May 1,...

AXA Reports 10% Gain in 2002 “Underlying Earnings”

Feb 27 2003 // France’s AXA Group posted a 10 percent increase in “underlying earnings” for the year 2002, helped by significant increases in premiums in its P/C business. The results, while generally good, also reflect...

S&P Lowers AXA Group Ratings to ‘AA-‘

Feb 12 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered all insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings on the core operating companies of France’s AXA group to ‘AA-‘...

AXA 2002 Gross Revenues Top $80 Billion

Feb 6 2003 // France’s AXA Group released earnings results showing that its total gross revenues in 2002 reached 74.728 billion Euros ($80.7 billion), approximately the same figure it reported for 2001.The company said, however,...

Moody’s Revises AXA Group’s Debt Rating Outlook from Stable to Negative

Jan 31 2003 // Moody’s Investors Service announced that it has changed its outlook to negative from stable on the A1 senior debt and A2 subordinated and junior subordinated debt ratings of France’s AXA group.Moody’s...

AXA Reappoints Management Board; deCastries Confirmed as Chairman

Jan 16 2003 // France’s AXA Group announced that its Supervisory Board had reappointed all five members of the company’s Management Board at a recent meeting, and had reconfirmed Henri deCastries as Board...

Rating Agencies Lower AXA’s U.S. Reinsurance Companies on Restructuring Plans

Jan 14 2003 // Yesterday’s announcement by France’s AXA Group that it would significantly curtail reinsurance operations in the U.S. (See IJ Website Jan.13) – ceasing both its financial guaranty reinsurance activities...

AXA Restructures Reinsurance Activities, Will Reduce U.S. Business

Jan 13 2003 // Philippe Donnet, the head of AXA Corporate Solutions in Paris, announced some major changes in the division, including a retreat from the U.S. market for financial guarantees and curtailing U.S. reinsurance operations.AXA...

AXA, U.K.’s Hammerson to Develop Prestige Site in Paris

Jan 6 2003 // France’s Axa Group has concluded an agreement with U.K. property developer Hammerson PLC to create a new office and shopping complex in the Place Vendome, rue St. Honoré area, one of the most fashionable and...

Axa To Sell Credit Lyonnais Stake to Credit Agricole, Maybe

Jan 3 2003 // France’s AXA Group, has decided to tacitly back Credit Agricole’s acquisition of Credit Lyonnais (CL) by offering to sell its 5.3% stake, conditioned, however, upon there being no rival bid from BNP Paribas,...