Ageas
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| Naamloze vennootschap / Société anonyme | |
| Traded as | Euronext: AGS |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Predecessor | Fortis Holding |
| Founded | 1990 (as Fortis); 2010 (as Ageas) |
| Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium |
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Key people
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Jozef De Mey (Chairman), Bart de Smet (CEO) |
| Products | Insurance |
| Revenue | €14.01 billion (end 2013) |
| Profit | €746.6 million (end 2013) |
| Total assets | $124.6 billion (2015) |
| Total equity | €9.422 billion (end 2013) |
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Number of employees
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13,071 (end 2013) |
| Website | www.ageas.com |
Ageas SA/NV is a Belgian multinational insurance company co-headquartered in Brussels. Ageas is Belgium's largest insurer and operates in 14 countries worldwide. The company was renamed from Fortis Holding in April 2010 and consists of those insurance activities remaining after the breakup and sale of the financial services group Fortis during the financial crisis of 2007-2010.
The company's roots are in the 1824 foundation of the Belgian life insurer Assurances Générales (now AG Insurance). In 1990 AG took over the Netherlands-based firm AMEV/VSB to form Fortis. AMEV/VSB had itself been formed earlier that year by the combination of a savings bank, VSB (Verenigde Spaarbank), and an insurer, AMEV, which followed the end of legislation preventing mergers between banks and insurers. AMEV had originally been founded in Utrecht in 1920 as Algemeene Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Verzekeringsmaatschappijen (English: General Society for Operation of Insurance).
After its creation, Fortis extended its activities to private and investment banking and to asset management, establishing subsidiaries around the world, and by 2007 it had become the 20th largest business in the world by revenue. That year Fortis agreed to purchase ABN AMRO jointly with Banco Santander and Royal Bank of Scotland Group, but the 2007-10 financial crisis exacerbated problems with financing its part of the acquisition and prompted fears of insolvency. Considered "too big to fail", Fortis received an €11.2 billion bailout from the Benelux governments and saw its retail banking operations in Belgium sold to BNP Paribas, and its insurance and banking subsidiaries in the Netherlands nationalised.
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