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Key figures
Highlights HY2020
Over the first 6 months of the year, the Covid crisis was obviously the main focus, alongside the low interest rate environment which was already a major theme in 2019
Impacts of the Covid crisis: a tremendous shock that can be absorbed by the Group and that will not call into question the LT vision and strategy
- Technical impacts: increase in unpaid premiums and increase in partial unemployment, offset by a decrease in health claims; few surrenders on life insurance contracts
- Financial impacts: lower real estate rental fees and dividends, liquidity well above the comfort zone at any time of the crisis, impairment of property and equity
- Participation to national rescue effort: donation to the insurance industry solidarity fund (€6m) over the 1st semester and contribution to the exceptional tax which will impact the annual accounts (€35m expected)
Management of low rates environment
- Control of net inflows and arbitrage: monitored negative net inflows in euros, good performance of net inflows in Unit Linked, positive arbitrage from General Account to UL
- Management of UL mix: 48% of total premiums, and 31% of total liabilities, above the French market
- Successful opportunistic issuance of a Tier 2 Bullet for €500m, representing 7 points of solvency, in a context of low interest rates
- Equity hedging set up in 2019 and updated in order to gradually lengthen the hedging maturity to end of 2021, to secure the whole equity portfolio
No exposure to most-affected businesses
- Pure Life player with no exposure to business interruption nor Corporate lines
- Steered business model with unique positioning towards high net worth individuals and supplementary pensions
- Large share of Unit Linked in our Balance Sheet as well as in the New Business
Resilient asset allocation despite headwinds
- Very efficient equity hedging program that allowed us to stabilize unrealized gains during the crisis
- Exceptional liquidity (€1.5bn cash) above our reference position
- Slight reweighting towards Corporates without changing our credit investment policy.
A stable business development
(premium, Sgam, IFRS, in €bn)
Investment stability despite headwinds, as of HY2020: €103.3bn (+0.6%)
(HY2020, IFRS)
Controlled decrease of General Account exposure and focus on Unit Linked exposure
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