Life Insurance
Aviva is a diversified insurance, retirement, wealth and savings group focused mainly on the UK, Ireland and Canada. It combines general insurance with life and retirement products, workplace and retail investments, health cover and asset management, creating several sources of recurring cash generation.
Provides motor, home and commercial insurance, life protection, pensions, annuities, workplace savings, wealth products, health insurance and asset management. The group is also integrating the acquired Direct Line business.
The UK is the core market, supplemented by Ireland and Canada. Customers include individuals, employers, pension schemes, advisers and commercial insurance clients.
Insurance pricing and claims trends, new business in pensions and annuities, wealth net flows, investment-market levels, capital generation, interest rates and delivery of cost and revenue synergies from the Direct Line integration.
Claims inflation, catastrophe losses, reserve errors, market and credit movements, regulatory change, intense insurance competition, integration risk from acquisitions and weaker investment or pension flows.
14 August 2026: first-half operating profit rose 24% to £1.33bn, ahead of company-compiled expectations. General-insurance premiums increased 29% to £8.1bn and wealth net inflows rose 32% to £7.6bn, with the Direct Line integration contributing to growth.
Follows a progressive dividend approach, supplemented by buybacks when capital permits. The 2025 final dividend of 26.2p went ex-dividend on 26 March 2026 and was paid on 14 May. On 14 August Aviva declared a 14.0p 2026 interim dividend; the new ex-dividend date was not yet shown on its published timetable.
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