3Q 2024 Trading Update
Lard Friese | Duncan Russell |
Chief Executive Officer | Chief Financial Officer |
November 15, 2024
Key messages
- EUR 336 million operating capital generation1, now expecting FY 2024 operating capital generation of around EUR 1.2 billion
- Continued strong growth in UK Workplace and in third-party net deposits in Asset Management
- US Strategic Assets experience commercial volatility with lower new life sales and net outflows in retirement
- Lower new business volumes in Brazil and Spain & Portugal, and, as anticipated, net outflows in UK Adviser platform
- Completed institutionally owned universal life policy re- purchase program; policy terminations with negative impact on RBC ratio; program beneficial to operating capital generation
- Announcing a planned new share buyback program of EUR 150 million2, to start at the beginning of January 2025, and expected to conclude in the first half of 2025
- Cash Capital at Holding at EUR 1.5 billion, planning to reach the mid-point of the operating range by end of 2026
- Before holding funding and operating expenses
- Including the neutralization of around EUR 40 million shares issued for share-based compensation plans
Transamerica on track to deliver the strategy outlined at the 2023 CMD despite commercial volatility
Americas
Distribution
WFG licensed agents (number in thousand)
82
69
36 | 37 |
3Q23 3Q24 Multi-ticket agents
Transamerica's
63% market share in WFG1
Savings & Investments | Protection Solutions | ||
Net deposits mid-sized plans | New individual life sales | ||
(in USD billion) | (in USD million) | ||
0.2 | 118 | 112 | |
-0.4 | ||||
3Q23 | 3Q24 | 3Q23 | 3Q24 | |
12.2 vs.+2.83Q23 | IRA AuA2 | |||
11.6 vs. 3Q23 | Value AuM2 | |||
+0.9 | GA Stable |
- New life sales decreased from WFG agents shifting focus to third- party annuity products sales
- Increasing number of new agents and implemented new activation and training programs for new recruits
- Net outflows in mid-sized Retirement Plans driven by higher withdrawals from increase in equity markets and contract discontinuances
- Continuing to diversify revenue streams by growing asset volumes in IRA and GA Stable Value
1. Transamerica's market share in the WFG wholly owned insurance agency in the US for Life products
3 2. AuA = Assets under Administration; AuM = Assets under Management; IRA = Individual Retirement Account; GA = General Accou nt; in USD billion, at the end of 3Q 2024
Rising platform assets under administration in the UK, benefiting from Workplace and favorable markets
UK
Workplace platform | Adviser platform |
net deposits | net deposits |
(in GBP million) | (in GBP million) |
Platform assets under administration
(in GBP billion)
865
98
50
112
61
Workplace
▪ Maintaining strong momentum in |
the Workplace platform with |
growing inflows from new and |
existing schemes |
▪ Adviser platform continues to be |
impacted by elevated withdrawals |
and ongoing consolidation in |
non-target segments |
(379)
3Q23 3Q24
(903)
3Q23
(916)
3Q24
49 | 52 | Adviser |
3Q23 3Q24
▪ Growing assets under |
administration on the platform |
mainly from favorable markets |
4
Lower new business volumes in International
International
(in EUR million)
New life sales
79
P&C and A&H new premium | Operating capital generation |
production |
▪ Lower new life sales in Brazil |
reflecting higher interest rates and |
6
65
6
a strong prior year quarter |
▪ New life sales in China increased |
ahead of a regulatory pricing |
49
34
14 | 17 |
27 25
47
37
change |
▪ In Spain, slowing sales for health |
and protection products, partly |
offset by higher sales linked to |
consumer loans |
▪ Operating capital generation |
10 8
3Q23 3Q24
3Q23 | 3Q24 | 3Q23 | 3Q24 |
decreased from non-recurring |
benefits in 3Q 2023 |
Spain & Portugal | China | Brazil | TLB and others | International segment |
5
Strong third-party net deposits in Asset Management
Aegon Asset Management
(in EUR billion)
3rd-party net deposits | Net deposits |
Global Platforms | Strategic Partnerships |
Assets under management
▪ Strong net deposits in Global |
Platforms third-party business |
mainly from strong fund |
2.8 |
1.2 |
0.3 |
1.2 |
295
57
238
324
62
262
Strategic Partnerships
Global Platforms
performance in alternative fixed |
income, including from our |
partnership with a.s.r., and from |
net deposits in the UK retirement |
business |
▪ Higher net deposits in Strategic |
Partnerships mainly from inflows in |
money market funds in China |
▪ Assets under management |
increased due to favorable |
3Q23 | 3Q24 | 3Q23 | 3Q24 |
3Q23 3Q24
markets and third-party net |
deposits |
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3Q 2024 Trading Update
Duncan Russell
Chief Financial Officer
3Q 2024 trading update
(in EUR million)
Operating | Free cash | Cash Capital | Gross | ||||
capital | flow | at Holding | financial | ||||
generation1 | leverage | ||||||
336 | 80 | 1,484 | 5,041 | ||||
-5% | +1% | (606) | (81) | ||||
compared with 3Q 2023 | compared with 1H 2024 | ||||||
8 1. Excluding holding funding and operating expenses of EUR (73) million; total operating capital generation is EUR 263 million in 3Q 2024
Capital positions of main units remained above operating levels
US RBC ratio1
435% | at the end of |
3Q 2024 | |
-11%-pts 1H 2024 | |
vs. the end of |
UK Solvency II ratio2
186% | at the end of |
3Q 2024 | |
-2%-pts 1H 2024 | |
vs. the end of |
- 16%-ptsone-time negative impact from termination of a portfolio of universal life policies previously bought from institutional owners; 8%-pts benefit expected in 4Q 2024 after associated equity funding is repaid
- 11%-ptsone-time negative impact mainly from restructuring and a contribution to the US own employee pension plan
- Market movements had a 3%-pts positive impact due to favorable equity markets, only partly offset by lower interest rates
- Operating capital generation contributed 12%-pts to the ratio
- Positive contribution from operating capital generation
- More than offset by negative impacts from market movements and a model refinement
9 | 1. US RBC ratio relates to the US insurance entities; operating level is 400% and the minimum dividend payment level is 350% |
2. UK Solvency II ratio refers to the UK Solvency II ratio of Scottish Equitable plc; operating level is 150% and the minimum dividend payment level is 135% |
EUR 336 million operating capital generation in 3Q; increasing the guidance to around EUR 1.2 billion for 2024
Operating capital generation before holding funding and operating expenses
(in EUR million)
354
16
47
56
236
336
33
37
58
208
Asset Management International
United Kingdom
Americas
-5%
354
336
388 | +10% | |
425 |
171 | -47% | 91 |
-205 -12% | -180 |
Earnings on in-force
Release of required
New business strain
- Earnings on in-force increased from growth in US Strategic Assets and in Aegon Asset Management
- Lower release of required from additional investments in the US and a one-time benefit in the prior year quarter in the UK
- Lower new business strain driven by International and UK, offset by higher new business strain in the US from continued growth in Retirement Plans
- Based on favorable performance in the first three quarters, increasing the 2024 full-year guidance to around EUR 1.2 billion
3Q23 | 3Q24 | 3Q23 | 3Q24 |
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