Vienna Insurance Group News

Vienna Insurance Group Completes Purchase of AXA’s Serbian Operations

Vienna Insurance Group announced it has completed the purchase of AXA’s Serbian companies. In July 2016 Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) signed a share purchase agreement for acquisition of the non-life company AXA Nezivotno Osiguranje a.d.o. Beograd and life company AXA …

AXA to Sell Its Romanian Life & Savings Operations to Vienna Insurance Group

AXA said it has entered into an agreement with Vienna Insurance Group to sell its life & savings insurance operations in Romania and exit the Romanian market. Under the terms of the agreement, Vienna Insurance Group would acquire 100 percent …

AXA to Sell Serbian P/C and Life & Savings Units to Vienna Insurance

AXA announced it has entered into an agreement with Vienna Insurance Group to sell both its Life & Savings and Property & Casualty operations in Serbia and exit the Serbian market. Under the terms of the agreement, Vienna Insurance Group …

Vienna Insurance CEO to Leave Over Strategic Differences; Stadler Is Successor

Vienna Insurance Group AG, Austria’s biggest insurer, said Chief Executive Officer Peter Hagen will leave the company over strategic differences later this month, more than two years before the end of his term. The company named Elisabeth Stadler as a …

Vienna Insurance Q2 Profit Drops 8.6% on Low Interest Rates in Region

Vienna Insurance Group AG, eastern Europe’s biggest insurer, said profit in the second quarter declined 8.6 percent as low interest rates in the region pushed down returns on its investments. Net income in the three months to June dropped to …

Vienna Insurance Posts Lowest Q1 Profit Since ’09, Hit by Low Interest Rates

The financial repercussions of record-low interest rates in Europe were highlighted Wednesday as Vienna Insurance Group AG, eastern Europe’s biggest insurer, posted its worst first-quarter profit since the financial crisis. The insurer, based in Austria’s capital, said the effect of …

Vienna Insurance Misses 2014 Profit Estimates on $85 Million Heta Writedown

Vienna Insurance Group AG wrote down debt of Austrian “bad bank” Heta Asset Resolution AG by 80 million euros ($85 million), a larger amount than expected, causing the firm to miss estimates for profit last year. The insurer, based in …

Vienna Insurance Hurt by Spring Flooding Losses

Vienna Insurance Group AG, Austria’s biggest insurer, reported second-quarter profit plunged after the worst central European floods in a decade caused damage compensation to triple. The shares fell. Pretax profit for the period ending June 30 dropped 69 percent to …