Aegon reports first half year 2024 results

August 22, 2024

1H24 results press release

Aegon reports first half year 2024 results

IFRS results

• Net loss of EUR 65 million with operating result more than offset by fair value losses in the US and the impact of assumption updates
• Operating result decreases by 8% compared with the first half of 2023 to EUR 750 million, reflecting unfavorable mortality experience mainly related to US Financial Assets
• Shareholders' equity per share decreases by 6% compared with December 31, 2023 to EUR 4.02, while CSM per share after estimated tax adjustment increases by 14% to EUR 4.17

Capital generation, cash and capital management

• Operating capital generation before holding funding and operating expenses decreases by 5% compared with the first half of 2023 to EUR 588 million reflecting unfavorable mortality experience in the US, and is on track to meet 2024 guidance
• Capital ratios of main units increase, remaining above their respective operating levels
• Cash Capital at Holding remains above the operating range at EUR 2.1 billion. EUR 1.535 billion share buyback program completed in June 2024. New EUR 200 million share buyback program started in July; expected to be completed in the second half of 2024
• Free Cash Flow of EUR 373 million, which includes 2023 final dividend from a.s.r.
• 2024 interim dividend of EUR 0.16 per common share, an increase of EUR 0.02 compared with 2023 interim dividend

Lard Friese, Aegon CEO, commented:

"In the first half of 2024 we made solid progress to deliver on our strategy to create leading providers of investment, protection, and retirement solutions. This was evidenced by continued strong sales growth across all our US Strategic Assets, further growth in our UK Workplace platform and the business in Brazil, and strong third-party net deposits in our asset management business. Consistent with our strategy to reduce capital employed by US Financial Assets, we saw our capital employed fall by USD 0.4 billion, and we are on track to reduce it to EUR 2.2 billion by the end of 2027.

While unfavorable mortality experience in our US Financial Assets negatively impacted both IFRS results and operating capital generation in the first half, we remain on track to meet our EUR 1.1 billion OCG guidance for 2024. Going forward, we expect the assumption updates to reduce IFRS claims experience variances and lead to an increase in our operating result. Capital ratios of our business units in the US and UK increased to 446% and 189% respectively, and our holding cash position at the half year remained above the operating range at EUR 2.1 billion.

In the US, Transamerica continued to perform well. Individual Life new life sales increased to USD 245 million, up 5% compared with the prior year period. World Financial Group's (WFG) sales force grew by 13% to almost 79,000 licensed agents, as a result of continued successful recruiting and training efforts. Net deposits for mid-sized retirement plans increased to USD 1.2 billion. This business growth also translated into an increase of US Strategic Assets CSM by 12%.

In June, we outlined our plans to accelerate Aegon UK's transformation into a leading digital savings and retirement platform. Moving to Aegon UK's performance in the first half, net deposits at the Workplace platform increased to GBP 1.7 billion, due to the continued onboarding of new schemes and higher net deposits on existing schemes. The Adviser platform saw net outflows increase to GBP 1.8 billion, reflecting a continued reduction of customer activity due to the macroeconomic environment in the UK, and consolidation and vertical integration in non-target adviser segments.

Commercial results at our global asset manager were very strong, with third-party net deposits in Global Platforms and net deposits in Strategic Partnerships combined totaling almost EUR 8 billion, in contrast with the outflows experienced during the prior year period.

Mongeral Aegon Group, our Brazilian joint venture, continued to grow with life sales up 9% to EUR 64 million, reflecting the impact of Aegon's increased economic stake and continued business growth in both group and individual products.

This set of results provides a solid basis to raise the interim dividend to 16 eurocents per share, up 2 eurocents compared with the 2023 interim dividend. Aegon completed the EUR 1.535 billion share buyback mainly related to the transaction to combine Aegon the Netherlands with a.s.r., and has begun the new EUR 200 million share buyback announced last quarter.

I am grateful to the teams for what they have achieved during the first half of the year, and we will work to build on that momentum in the second half as we continue the execution of our strategy."

Please note that all comparisons are versus the first half of 2023 unless stated otherwise.

Contact details and dial-in information can be found at the end of this press release, on page 27.

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Strategy

Aegon is an international financial services holding company. Aegon's ambition is to build leading businesses that offer their customers investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Aegon's portfolio of businesses includes fully owned businesses in

the United States and United Kingdom, and a global asset manager. Aegon also creates value by combining its international expertise with strong local partners via insurance joint ventures in Spain & Portugal, China, and Brazil, and via asset management partnerships in France and China. In addition, Aegon owns a Bermuda-based life insurer and generates value via a strategic shareholding in a market leading Dutch insurance and pensions company. Aegon is taking significant steps to improve its performance and to create sustainable value for all of its stakeholders.

Aegon's businesses in the US have been divided into Financial Assets and Strategic Assets. The aim is to reduce Aegon's exposure to Financial Assets and improve the predictability of capital generation from these assets. Aegon intends to, over time, reallocate capital from Financial Assets to growth opportunities in Strategic Assets, partnerships, and the global asset manager. Exposure to businesses outside of Aegon's core focus has been largely eliminated over recent years, most recently with the divestment of

the business in India, which was completed on February 23, 2024.

Throughout its transformation, Aegon aims to maintain a solid capital position in its business units and at the Holding.

Through proactive risk management actions, Aegon is improving its risk profile and reducing the volatility of its capital ratios. This is underscored by Aegon's capital strength.

The next chapter in Aegon's strategy is expected to lead to operating capital generation from its units of around EUR 1.2 billion, and of free cash flow of around EUR 800 million by 2025. Aegon aims to grow its dividend per share to around EUR 0.40 over 2025, barring unforeseen circumstances and subject to the necessary approvals. Gross financial leverage is expected to remain at around EUR 5 billion.

Transaction with a.s.r.

On July 4, 2023, Aegon announced the completion of the combination of its Dutch pension, life and non-life insurance, banking, and mortgage origination activities with a.s.r., and the beginning of its asset management partnership with a.s.r. As part of the transaction, Aegon received EUR 2.2 billion in cash proceeds and a 29.99% strategic shareholding in a.s.r. The EUR 1.535 billion share buyback program mainly associated with this transaction was completed on June 28, 2024.

2024 UK webinar

On June 25, 2024, Aegon hosted a webinar to present its plans to accelerate the transformation of Aegon UK into a leading digital savings and retirement platform. The webinar focused on the interconnected business model of Aegon UK with three growth franchises: the Workplace platform, the Adviser platform (formerly known as Retail), and the Advice franchise.

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Business update Americas

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Transamerica - Aegon's business in the United States - has a long and proud history of making financial services available to

the many, not just the few. The company aims to accelerate its growth and become America's leading middle market life insurance and retirement company. Since the beginning of this year, we have grouped Transamerica's Strategic Assets into three business segments: Distribution, Savings & Investments and Protection Solutions. The results of Financial Assets are presented as a fourth segment. Non-insurance businesses are reflected in Distribution and Savings & Investments while Protection Solutions and Financial Assets contain the insurance businesses.

During the first half of 2024, Strategic Assets have experienced strong business growth while we continue to implement management actions to reduce the exposure to Financial Assets, consistent with Aegon's strategy.

Strategic Assets business update: Distribution

Transamerica's Distribution business segment consists of World Financial Group (WFG), its wholly owned life insurance agency, and Transamerica Financial Advisors. Transamerica's ambition is to increase the number of WFG agents to 110,000 by 2027, while at the same time improving agent productivity.

At the end of the first half of 2024, WFG had 78,978 licensed agents. This is an increase of 13% compared with the same period in 2023 and was a result of the successful training of new recruits to become licensed agents. Over the same period, the number of multi-ticket agents - those selling more than one life policy per 12 months - increased by 9% to 37,476 agents. Transamerica's market share in the WFG distribution channel in the US amounted to 64% for life products in the first half of 2024 and remained consistent with the level observed throughout 2023, building on the service experience for WFG agents and products tailored to the US middle market.

Strategic Assets business update: Savings & Investments

Transamerica's Savings & Investments business segment includes Retirement Plans, Mutual Funds, and Stable Value Solutions. The growth focus lies in recordkeeping and investment services for US defined contribution plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs), as well as advice to plan participants. The Retirement Plan business aims to increase profitability by growing assets in

the General Account Stable Value and IRA propositions, focusing on mid-sized and pooled plans, and delivering managed advice and other ancillary products and services.

Net deposits

Retirement Plans net outflows of USD 0.8 billion in the first half of 2024 were 19% lower compared with the same period of the prior year. Net deposits for mid-sized plans increased to USD 1.2 billion in the reporting period, compared with net deposits of

USD 1.0 billion in the first half of 2023. This was driven by higher gross deposits for mid-sized plans benefiting from the large pooled plan sale of USD 1.7 billion in the first quarter of 2023 which led to deposits in the current reporting period. This more than offset higher withdrawals. Large-market plans recorded net outflows of USD 2.6 billion, a similar amount compared with the first half of the prior year, as higher gross deposits in large-market plans were more than offset by outflows from contract discontinuances and higher participant withdrawals. Part of the eligible participant withdrawals were rolled over to IRAs in an effort to consolidate assets and retain customers, which generated USD 0.6 billion of net deposits during the reporting period.

Net outflows for Mutual Funds amounted to USD 1.2 billion in the first half of 2024, compared with USD 0.2 billion in the same period of 2023. This mainly reflected gross deposits decreasing by USD 0.8 billion compared with the prior year period as investors prefer cash and shorter-term investment alternatives in the current interest rate environment. Redemptions increased compared with

the same period of 2023.

Account balances

Account balances in Retirement Plans increased to USD 229 billion at the end of the first half of 2024, up from USD 206 billion at the end of the first half of 2023. Mid-sized plans accounted for USD 52 billion of the total account balances in Retirement Plans at the end of the reporting period, compared with USD 45 billion at the end of the first half of 2023.

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Transamerica aims to grow and diversify revenue streams by expanding both the General Account Stable Value product and IRAs to USD 16 billion and USD 18 billion of assets under management, respectively, by 2027. Assets under management in the General Account Stable Value product increased by 6% compared with the end of June 2023 to USD 11.4 billion as of June 30, 2024. IRA account balances increased by 19% compared with the end of June 2023 to USD 11.3 billion as of June 30, 2024, driven by efforts to retain assets from retirement plans, additional customer deposits, and favorable equity markets over the past year.

Strategic Assets business update: Protection Solutions

Transamerica's Protection Solutions business segment includes insurance businesses covering Individual Life, Individual Health, Workplace Life, Workplace Health, and Indexed Annuities lines of business. The Indexed Annuities line of business includes registered index linked annuities (RILA) and fixed indexed annuities (FIA). Transamerica is investing in its product manufacturing capabilities and operating model to position its Protection Solutions business for further growth in the US middle market, with distribution through both WFG and third parties.

New life sales

Transamerica targets around USD 750 million of annual new life sales in Individual Life by 2027. In the first half-year of 2024, Individual Life generated new life sales of USD 245 million, an increase of 5% compared with the prior year period supported by all distribution channels. WFG represented 71% of total Individual Life sales in this half-year. The increase in sales was driven by

the indexed universal life product line, which is the main Transamerica product marketed by WFG, partially offset by lower traditional life sales driven by competitive pressures in the term life market.

Workplace Life reported new life sales of USD 40 million compared with USD 43 million in the first half-year of 2023; the latter included the sale of a large contract.

Net deposits Indexed Annuities

Net deposits for Indexed Annuities products amounted to USD 505 million in the first half-year of 2024. Of that total, RILA products contributed net deposits of USD 531 million in the first half of 2024, compared with USD 197 million in the same period of 2023. This was driven by enhanced wholesale distribution capacity and improved sales productivity for this product.

New premium production Workplace Health

In the first half of 2024, new premium production for Workplace Health insurance amounted to USD 67 million, an increase of 10% compared with the same period of 2023, driven by a new large voluntary benefits contract.

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Update on Financial Assets

Financial Assets are blocks of business that are capital intensive with relatively low returns on the capital employed. Transamerica is actively managing variable annuities with interest rate sensitive riders, fixed annuities including Single Premium Group Annuities (SPGAs), the legacy universal life book, and long-term care portfolios as Financial Assets.

Transamerica is taking in-force management actions on Financial Assets that are expected to reduce the capital employed by USD 1.2 billion, which, in addition to the assumed organic run-off, would lead to having USD 2.2 billion of capital employed by year- end 2027. On June 30, 2024, Financial Assets had USD 3.5 billion of capital employed, a decrease of USD 0.6 billion compared with December 31, 2022, which is the reference date for this target. The decrease was mainly driven by favorable market impacts in

the variable annuities portfolio, the earlier expansion of the dynamic hedging program for the Variable Annuities guaranteed benefits to include the lapse and mortality margins, as well as the reinsurance of a universal life portfolio.

Universal Life

The legacy Universal Life portfolio includes universal life policies with and without secondary guarantees, as well as a portfolio reinsured from Transamerica Life Bermuda. Transamerica is currently executing a management action to purchase institutionally owned universal life policies to reduce the mortality risk of the overall portfolio. By 2027, Transamerica aims to have purchased 40% of the USD 7 billion face value of institutionally owned universal life policies that were in-force at the end of 2021. By the end of

the first half-year of 2024, the company had purchased 36% of the face value of institutionally owned universal life policies focusing on older age policies with large face amounts.

Long-Term Care

Transamerica is actively managing its long-term care business, primarily through premium rate increase programs. The company continues to work with state regulators to get pending and future actuarially justified rate increases approved. At its 2023 Capital Markets Day, Aegon announced its intention to achieve an additional net present value of USD 700 million of premium rate increases. The total value of premium rate increases approved by the states achieved since the beginning of 2023 amounts to USD 395 million, which is 56% of the target. Claims experience continues to track well with assumptions, with the actual-to-expected claim ratio being mildly unfavorable at 103% in the first half of 2024. IFRS liabilities capture the best-estimate view on both future claims, future premiums, and related anticipated rate increases.

Variable Annuities

The portfolio of variable annuities with significant interest sensitive riders is a legacy block that will run off over time, and that has been de-risked by dynamically hedging the market risk associated with guaranteed benefit riders, including the statutory lapse and mortality margins. In the first half of 2024, the hedge program was 99% effective, continuing its strong track record of managing the financial market risks embedded in the guarantees.

Net outflows in Variable Annuities amounted to USD 3.1 billion in the first half-year of 2024, compared with USD 2.4 billion in the same period last year, in line with expectations for this Financial Asset. Gross deposits in Variable Annuities increased by 25% to

USD 0.7 billion in the first half of 2024, mainly from growing sales in a variable annuity product with limited guarantees. This was more than offset by higher surrenders, which are in line with long-term best estimates.

Fixed Annuities

The Fixed Annuities portfolio is a Financial Asset that will run off relatively quickly over time. Net outflows in the run-off Fixed Annuities book amounted to USD 377 million in the first half of 2024, compared with net outflows of USD 405 million in the same period of last year. Surrender and withdrawal rates for Fixed Annuities increased in the reporting period, but remained in line with long-term best estimates. In addition, a portfolio of Single Premium Guaranteed Annuities (SPGAs) is managed as a Financial Asset and had net outflows of USD 116 million in the first half-year of 2024, which was about the same compared with the prior year reporting period.

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Business update United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, Aegon aims to become the leading digital savings and retirement platform provider in the workplace and adviser markets.

Strategic developments

In April 2023, Aegon announced the sale of its UK individual protection book to Royal London, which supports Aegon's strategy to focus on its core activities in the UK. The Part VII transfer of the individual protection policies was completed on July 1, 2024.

In August 2023, Aegon announced an extension of its strategic partnership with Nationwide Building Society (NBS), under which NBS' financial planning teams moved to Aegon UK. In addition, Aegon UK will continue to provide the platform on which NBS members manage their investments. The transaction, which supports Aegon's strategy to grow its Advice franchise, was completed on February 1, 2024.

On June 25, 2024, Aegon hosted a webinar to present its plans to accelerate the transformation of Aegon UK into a leading digital savings and retirement platform. The webinar focused on the interconnected business model of Aegon UK with three growth franchises: the Workplace platform, the Adviser platform (formerly known as Retail), and the Advice franchise.

The transformation will enable Aegon UK to grow the combined assets under administration of the combined Adviser and Workplace platforms to above GBP 135 billion by 2028 and to increase its operating capital generation by around 12% per year from approximately GBP 120 million in 2024. Aegon UK's IFRS operating result is expected to increase to around GBP 190 million in 2028 from around GBP 165 million in 2024. Remittances to the Holding are expected to increase by around GBP 5 million per year during the transformation, starting from approximately GBP 100 million in 2024, with potential for higher remittance growth after

the investment period. Aegon UK will self-fund the transformation allowing a small decrease in UK SE Solvency II level.

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Business update

Net deposits

Net deposits in the Workplace platform amounted to GBP 1.7 billion in the first half of 2024, compared with net deposits of

GBP 1.5 billion in the same period of 2023. The increase was driven by continued elevated levels of inflows due to the onboarding of new schemes and higher net deposits on existing schemes. For the Adviser platform, net outflows amounted to GBP 1.8 billion in the first half of 2024 compared with net outflows of GBP 1.1 billion in the prior year period. This reflects a continued reduction of customer activity due to the current macro-economic environment and increasing consolidation and vertical integration in non-target adviser segments.

Net outflows in Traditional products amounted to GBP 0.8 billion compared with net outflows of GBP 0.5 billion in the same period of 2023, as this book gradually runs off. For the Institutional business, net deposits amounted to GBP 1.2 billion in the first half of 2024, compared with GBP 3.0 billion in the same period of 2023. This decrease was due to the prior year period benefiting from

the onboarding of a large client. The Institutional business is low-margin and net deposits for this business can be lumpy.

Assets under administration

Total Platform Assets under Administration (AuA) consisting of the Workplace platform and the Adviser platform, increased by 11% compared with June 30, 2023, to GBP 111 billion. During the same period, overall AuA, which also includes Traditional products and the Institutional business, increased by 11% to GBP 216 billion.

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Business update International

In Spain & Portugal, China, and Brazil, Aegon is investing in profitable growth. Aegon is maximizing Transamerica Life Bermuda's (TLB) value through active in-force management, disciplined risk management, and capital management actions, while continuing to make profitable sales on a selective basis. TLB's closed block of universal life insurance liabilities is reinsured by Transamerica.

Strategic developments

In July 2023, Aegon announced the sale of its 56% stake in its associate in India, Aegon Life Insurance Company, to Bandhan Financial Holdings Limited, an Indian financial services company. This transaction was completed on February 23, 2024.

Business update

New life sales

New life sales decreased to EUR 140 million in the first half of 2024, down 20% compared with the first half of 2023.

• New life sales in Spain & Portugal decreased by EUR 8 million to EUR 17 million due to lower sales, driven by the high interest rate environment which continues to affect mortgage sales in Spain.
• New life sales in China decreased by EUR 37 million to EUR 44 million, mostly driven by the negative impact of a pricing regulation related to insurance products with guaranteed interest rates.
• New life sales in Brazil increased by EUR 5 million to EUR 64 million, reflecting the impact of Aegon's increased economic stake and continued business growth in both group and individual products.
• For TLB and others, new life sales grew to EUR 14 million, an increase of EUR 4 million compared with the first half of 2023, driven by higher indexed universal life sales due to broadened distribution and the launch of an upgraded product.

New premium production for non-life business

New premium production for accident & health insurance amounted to EUR 23 million, a decrease of 19% compared with the first half of 2023, driven by lower sales from both accident and health products in Spain and partially offset by higher sales in Portugal.

New premium production for property & casualty insurance decreased by 5% to EUR 36 million, driven by lower demand for mortgages in Spain due to higher interest rates resulting in fewer household policies being sold. This was partially offset by higher sales in single premium products linked to consumer loans driven by a successful bank campaign, and by higher sales in Portugal.

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Business update Asset Management

Aegon Asset Management (Aegon AM) aims to improve efficiency and drive growth through third-party assets, and by increasing the share of proprietary investment solutions in its affiliate business.

Strategic developments

Aegon AM has decided to further simplify its activities in Global Platforms to improve efficiency and profitability. Its focus lies on three core competencies: growth in alternative fixed income assets and real assets, being a recognized leader in responsible investing and helping partners with retirement and fiduciary solutions to build market leading retirement platforms. As a result, Aegon AM is rationalizing its product set and has taken cost reduction measures.

Business update

Net deposits

Third-party net deposits in Global Platforms amounted to EUR 5.1 billion in the first half of 2024, compared with net outflows of

EUR 0.6 billion in the same period of 2023. The net deposits in the first half of 2024 were mostly driven by a large new fiduciary client in the Netherlands and by fixed income in the UK, due to strong fund performance and the onboarding of a large client. Alternative fixed income also contributed favorably, as well as the asset management partnership with a.s.r.

Net deposits in Strategic Partnerships amounted to EUR 2.7 billion in the first half of 2024, compared with net outflows of

EUR 0.6 billion in the same period last year, and were driven by Aegon's Chinese asset management joint venture, Aegon Industrial Fund Management Company (AIFMC). The increase in net deposits was mostly driven by money market funds, in part due to a new collaboration with a consumer finance platform. La Banque Postale AM also recorded positive net deposits, despite the impact of continued withdrawals of low-margin business from a former shareholder.

Net outflows from the general account amounted to EUR 1.7 billion in the first half of 2024, compared with net outflows of EUR 0.7 billion in the prior year period. The increase in net outflows were driven by money market funds.

Net outflows from affiliates amounted to EUR 1.4 billion in the first half of 2024, compared with net outflows of EUR 0.5 billion in the same period of 2023. The increase in net outflows was mainly due to the onboarding of a large new client in the US in

the comparable period last year.

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